Third Member Of So-Called Toronto 18 Pleads Guilty
Posted September 28, 2009 1:30 pm.
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A third member of the so-called Toronto 18 has pleaded guilty in a plot to attack Canadian targets.
Saad Gaya pleaded guilty Monday in a Brampton, Ont., court to committing a criminal offence for a terrorist group.
Gaya was among 18 men and youth rounded up in the summer of 2006 and charged in a plot to wreak havoc on several targets, including Parliament and RCMP headquarters.
Last week, Ali Dirie, 26, pleaded guilty and faces a maximum 10-year sentence and earlier this month Saad Khalid, 23, was handed a 14-year prison sentence after pleading guilty.
Only one case has gone to trial so far, resulting in a conviction.
Last September, a judge found Nishanthan Yogakrishnan guilty of participating in, and contributing to, a terrorist group.
Although 17 at the time of the offences, he was tried as a youth but received an adult sentence of 2 1/2 years before being released in May in light of his time served before trial.
Seven men, including the alleged leaders of the group, remain in custody awaiting trial.
Seven of the 18 people arrested have since had their charges dropped or stayed.
