VANCOUVER - The first-degree murder trial of a former Kamloops, B.C., lawyer accused of killing his client has concluded at the B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver.

Rogelio ‘Butch’ Bagabuyo is accused of killing Mohd Abdullah, a lecturer at Thompson Rivers University, on March 11, 2022.

Justice Kathleen Ker told the court on Thursday, after closing arguments and rebuttals had concluded, that she felt it was appropriate that the decision be given in Kamloops, where Abdullah was killed.

The trial heard that Abdullah hired the then-lawyer in 2016 and they conspired to hide money during Abdullah's separation from his wife, but Bagabuyo spent more than $780,000 syphoned to him.

Crown prosecutor Ann Katrine Saettler said in closing arguments that the accused methodically planned the murder for m

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