VANCOUVER — The Crown attorney in the first-degree murder trial of a former Kamloops lawyer says the accused methodically planned the murder of his client for more than a week.

Ann Katrine Saettler told a B.C. Supreme Court judge in Vancouver that Rogelio ‘Butch’ Bagabuyo wrote a "planning note" that reminded him to bag everything after, not to bring his mobile phone or E-watch, turn off his GPS and throw his garbage out.

Bagabuyo is accused of first-degree murder in the March 11, 2022, killing of his client Mohd Abdullah, a lecturer at Thompson Rivers University.

The court heard earlier that in 2016 Abdullah hired Bagabuyo and they conspired to hide "large sums of money" during Abdullah's separation from his wife, but Bagabuyo later spent the cash.

On her second day of closing argumen

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