SURREY — Federal police investigating the escape of gangland killer Rabih Alkhalil from a British Columbia jail said they foiled an unrelated murder plot as they announced charges against three people who allegedly conspired in the breakout three years ago.

But the police news conference where the developments were announced shed no light on the whereabouts of Alkhalil, despite a flurry of recent media reports that he had been arrested in the Middle East.

B.C. RCMP said Monday that charges had been laid against Edward Ayoub and John Potvin, both of Ottawa, and Ryan Van Gool of Harrison Hot Springs, B.C., for their alleged role in helping Alkhalil escape the North Fraser Pretrial Centre in Port Coquitlam, B.C., in July 2022.

Video of the escape showed Alkhalil being led through prison ha

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