Counsel for OPCC resigns from Myles Gray hearing over obscenity

The counsel for the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner of British Columbia at the hearing into the 2015 death of Myles Gray says he is resigning from the long-awaited proceeding after coming under a B.C. Law Society investigation for an obscenity uttered last week.

Richard Neary, the lawyer for Brad Hickford, read a statement by his client saying he is “bewildered and troubled” by a recording of the obscenity that was captured on an audio stream of the hearing in Vancouver last Wednesday, and he is withdrawing with “almost unbearable regret.”

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Adjudicator Elizabeth Arnold-Bailey says the “unfortunate and vulgar” remark appeared to have been directed at either her or a female lawyer representing one of the officers involved in Gray’s death, but she has doubts about who said it.

More to come.

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OPCC hearing into Myles Gray death now underway