[ALL] OTPC: Hunter Trial Reaches Verdict
OTPC: Hunter Trial Reaches Verdict
December 24, 29483 - [Global]
OTPC - In a Christmas gift likely to be unwanted by its recipient, one month after the beginning of proceedings, Khiernan Hunter has been convicted of one count of murder, as well as conspiracy in the killings of two Omni-Pol officers.
After a month long trial in which Pol and Internops provided an almost unprecedented amount of evidence indicating his involvement in criminal activity dating back over a decade, the judge, Brannon Thoth, today passed sentence, convicting him of;
First-degree murder of R. Kerniak, his former employer.
Conspiracy to commit murder, in the cases of Pol officers Mcallister and Mckallen, and Internops agent Callahan.
Criminal damage.
Espionage.
Grand theft.
Terrorism.
The prosecution provided documentary evidence of Hunter coordinating the activities of the organisation responsible for these activities, as well as proving based upon testimony of other captured agents that he was the only one with direct personal access to overseer Kerniak, and as such could be the only one responsible for his death, confirmed by Omni-Med's forensics experts to be murder. This placed him in a position to run the organization, presenting all subsequent orders as being from the overseer. He personally ordered the deaths of the officers who got too close to uncovering the group's activities, and directly infiltrated Omni-Tek where he was the subject of an ongoing Internops investigation after astute officers questioned his credentials.
Outside the court, relatives and friends of the victims awaiting the result of the trial brandished gold-painted nooses and staged a hanging of an effigy with the appearance of Hunter, an allegorical representation of the noose symbol found at the site of the crimes.
Mr. Thoth, took fifteen minutes to decide upon a sentence, eventually announcing that Hunter shall be taken to an Omni-Tek run zero-gravity asteroid mining penal facility, where he will serve six life sentences, with no possibility of parole.
As he was being escorted out of the courtroom, Ms Jaita Parne, who had been reported to be Hunter’s girlfriend, made her feelings clear on his activities by slapping Hunter as he was escorted past her. She was blocked by one of the escorting officers from any further contact with the convict.
