A former Canadian soldier accused of murdering a B.C. gangster in Southeast Asia is one step closer to extradition after a ruling on Friday.
Matthew Dupre was committed for extradition Friday after Court of King’s Bench Justice Denise Kiss found the Canadian government had successfully made the case to surrender him to ThailandStart your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion delivered straight to your inbox at 7 a.m., Monday to Friday.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
Dupre was previously a member of the Canadian Armed Forces and served in Afghanistan before joining a private security firm deployed in high-risk areas including Iraq. He was arrested at his home in Sylvan Lake on Feb. 20 and remains in custody. As part of the extradition proceedings, a Thai police official submitted a sworn statement claiming to have matched a distinctive tattoo on Dupre’s right arm to surveillance footage and witness testimony.
But Kiss said extradition judges are bound by treaty, and only permitted to conduct only a “limited weighing” of the evidence against the accused. She said her role is to establish whether, at first glance, there is a case against Dupre, and whether on a balance of probabilities he is the person sought for extradition.Advertisement 5“It is not for this country to assume that it alone knows how to arrive at a true verdict,” she said.
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