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A G20 protest organizer was sent to jail for 10 months at a noisy sentencing hearing Tuesday.Supporters packed a suburban Toronto courtroom as Leah Henderson, 27, was sentenced for encouraging vandalism at the summit in June of last year.Like other organizers prosecuted in the wake of the summit, Ms. Henderson was unrepentant as she addressed the court.“All you need to know about me is that I am a person of conscience. I came here from a place of morality. I stand here guilty of breaking your laws, not the laws of justice,” she said. “I submit to your jails because you hold the weapons, but that will not always be so.”Court heard that Ms. Henderson, a native of Alberta, moved to Toronto in recent years and quickly became involved in various activist causes. She identifies as an anarchist.Crown attorney Jason Miller said Ms. Henderson is a licensed paralegal and a talented mediator, and that she has no criminal record.“She has a degree of maturity that is beyond that of the others we have dealt with,” he said. “This cuts both ways: Ms. Henderson ought to have known better.”Mr. Miller argued that jail time was necessary to deter others in future from encouraging protest vandalism, and that Ms. Henderson’s politics were irrelevant to the case ....
“All you need to know about me is that I am a person of conscience. I came here from a place of morality. I stand here guilty of breaking your laws, not the laws of justice,” she said. “I submit to your jails because you hold the weapons, but that will not always be so.”
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WWII and Vietnam-era warfare training and bomb-making reports were among the files found on the so-called “G20 geek’s’’ seized computer, the man’s Toronto trial heard Monday.Police arrested 39-year-old Byron Sonne on June 22, 2010, and later charged him with plotting to bomb the meeting of world leaders that year. His computer was seized after a warrant was obtained to search his home. Police also obtained chemicals, diagrams and materials they allege Sonne planned to use to make a bomb.The hobby chemist and computer hacker who faces five charges, including possession of an explosive device and inciting others to commit an indictable offence, has admitted to police in recorded interviews available online that he did possess materials that could be used to make explosives — but that he had not combined them.During Sonne’s trial, which resumed Monday in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Det. Const. David Ouellette, a Toronto police officer seconded to the Integrated National Security Enforcement Team, testified about an Internet search conducted on Sonne’s computer by the RCMP.Among the many PDF documents police found was one titled “Unconventional Warfare Devices and Techniques,’’ a 1960s-era U.S. Army technical manual. The file first appeared on Sonne’s computer on Jan. 5, 2009, court heard.Another, titled “Improvised Munitions Handbook,” showed up on Sonne’s computer, on the same date. It’s a military manual that discusses potassium nitrate, launchers, and other explosive devices, and includes “schematics on how to make an improvised device using materials that are sometimes commonly accessible,’’ Ouellette told the trial.Sonne spent nearly 11 months in pre-trial custody — longer than any other G20 accused — before being released on bail last May ....
Byron Sonne, the so-called “G20 geek” accused of plotting to bomb the 2010 summit of world leaders in downtown Toronto two years ago, was found not guilty Tuesday of all charges.Sonne’s verdict comes nearly two years after the 39-year-old Internet security expert was arrested on June 22, 2010, as the first high-profile detention of the chaotic G20 weekend.Arguably the most compelling of all the G20 accused, Sonne — a computer hacker from Forrest Hill — seemed an unlikely terrorist when he was pulled off a Bathurst St. bus and accused of assembling explosives in his basement laboratory while inciting others through social media to disrupt the G20 security apparatus.He was first charged with six offences, including mischief, weapons possession and intimidating justice officials. But by the time the case reached trial, most of the charges were dropped and Sonne was left with four counts of possessing explosive materials and one count of “counseling the commission of mischief not committed.” ....
