Canada’s highest court rules in favour of reopening Surrey Six murder case

The Supreme Court of Canada said Friday that the police misconduct in the Surrey Six investigation warranted a new evidentiary hearing nine years after two Red Scorpion gangsters were convicted of first-degree murder.

Justice Sheilah L. Martin wrote the unanimous decision for Canada’s highest court and ordered the matter back to B.C. Supreme Court for a full hearing on the misconduct — meaning witnesses would be called.

The court did not order a stay of the charges against Cody Haevischer and Matthew Johnston as their lawyers had requested.

Both were convicted in late 2014 of six counts of first-degree murder, as well as conspiracy, in a 2007 plot to kill rival gangster Corey Lal which spiralled out of control and left six men dead.

Two of them, Ed Schellenberg and Chris Mohan, got caught in the slaughter because they were both on the 15th floor of Surrey’s Balmoral Tower when the killers arrived.