B.C. contract killing murder trial hears about alleged accomplice-turned-police informant – BC [Video]

The B.C. murder trial of an alleged contract killer heard testimony Monday about an alleged accomplice to the crime, who later became an agent for police.

Brandon Teixeira has pleaded not guilty to three charges — first-degree murder, attempted murder and discharging a firearm — related to two victims.

He’s accused in the October 2017 Surrey slaying of 28-year-old Nicolas Khabra and an attack on a second person who survived and whose name (along with numerous other elements of the case, including several other people’s identities) is protected by a publication ban.

On Monday, the court heard that the alleged accomplice, referred to as “Person X,” was a criminal with $50,000 in debt and was looking for compensation of between $400,000 and $500,000 for his cooperation with police.

On the stand, an RCMP officer told the jury Person X signed a contract in 2018, a year after Khabra’s killing, to …