Three men charged with the 2011 murder of Red Scorpion gangster Jonathan Bacon are expected to plead guilty to lesser charges when the case resumed on May 1, Crown spokesman Dan McLaughlin confirmed Friday.
A new indictment was sworn this week against Jason McBride, Jujhar Khun-Khun and Michael Jones. All three had been facing first-degree murder charges for the August 2011 shooting of a Porsche Cayenne outside Kelowna’s Delta Grand hotel.
Bacon was killed, Hells Angel Larry Amero and two women in the vehicle were wounded, while Independent Soldiers gangster James Riach was uninjured.
McLaughlin said the new indictment in the case was filed April 19.
McBride is now charged with the second-degree murder of Bacon, and the attempted murder of Amero, Riach, Leah Hadden-Watts and Lyndsey Black.
Jones and Khun-Khun are now charged only with conspiracy to commit the murders of Amero, Riach and Bacon.
“The matter has now been adjourned to May 1, 2018. It is anticipated that guilty pleas will be entered at that time to all charges on the new indictment and the sentencing hearing will proceed on the basis of a joint submission,” McLaughlin said.
“As the matter remains before the court the B.C. Prosecution Service will have no further comment at this time.”
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