Jurors granted greater anonymity in trial into gang-related New Year’s triple-murder
When jurors take their seats at the trial of two men accused in a gang-related triple homicide that is to begin on Monday, they will be shielded by new provisions designed to protect their anonymity. Recent amendments to the Criminal Code mean that members of the seven-man, five-woman jury selected Friday will only be referred to by their number, not their names, during the first-degree murder trial of Michael Joseph Roberto and Nathan Lawrence Zuccherato. Roberto, 27, and Zuccherato, 24, are among four men accused of having a role in the shooting deaths of FOB Killers member Sanjeev Mann, his friend Aaron Bendle and bystander Keni Su’a at the Bolsa Restaurant on New Year’s Day 2009. The Bolsa killings were the deadliest incident in a long-running conflict between the FOB and FOB Killers gangs that has claimed at least 25 lives since 2002. Friday’s jury selection took place amid heightened security, with uniformed and plainclothes Calgary police officers bol...