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HALIFAX - One in every of three folks accused of supplying ammunition to the gunman who killed 22 folks in Nova Scotia in 2020 has pleaded responsible to a single cost.
Chris Hansen, a spokeswoman for the Nova Scotia Prosecution Service, says the lawyer for James Banfield entered a responsible plea in Halifax provincial court docket at present on a cost of transporting with out authority below a bit of the Prison Code coping with prohibited ammunition.
Banfield, who's the brother of the gunman’s common-law accomplice Lisa Banfield, was initially scheduled to face trial on Jan. 24.
Hansen says James Banfield is scheduled to be sentenced on June 1.
Lisa Banfield pleaded not responsible in Could of final yr to 2 counts of unlawfully offering the shooter with ammunition and is scheduled to go to trial in March, whereas her brother-in-law, Brian Brewster, entered a plea of not responsible final April 13.
The gunman killed his victims in a number of communities in northern and central Nova Scotia over a two-day interval starting Apr. 18, 2020, earlier than he was fatally shot by police.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Jan. 21, 2022.