Phillip Rankin told a B.C. The 54-year-old claims he didn't understand what he was doing at the time, when he was 17 years old. The confession Tallio allegedly gave to the RCMP, which was not audio recorded, was excluded at trial. But Tallio allegedly gave another incriminating statement to a psychiatrist while he was being assessed at the Forensic Psychiatric Institute in Coquitlam. Rankin told defence lawyer Thomas Arbogast he agrees with that position.

Source: CBC News October 16, 2020 02:10 UTC