Breach-of-bail charge against Vader dropped
The Crown has dropped a charge of breaching bail against Travis Vader on the grounds it is “not in the public interest to proceed.”
Vader is currently on bail and awaiting trial for the murders of St. Albert couple Lyle and Marie McCann.
He was charged for allegedly violating a curfew condition April 14 in Camrose.
At the time, Alberta Justice documents alleged Vader had failed to comply with a condition to be “indoors at his approved residence between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. daily, except for medical emergencies.” Camrose police said at the time Vader was arrested in hospital and that there was “some information he went to the hospital to seek medical treatment,” but that it was still an alleged breach.
An emailed statement released by Alberta Justice now says, “The Crown, after reviewing all of the materials garnered from the investigation conducted by the Camrose Police Service determined that it was not in the public interest to proceed with this particular allegation and, as a result, was compelled to direct a stay.”
Vader has alleged ongoing harassment and abuse of process by RCMP and justice officials.
In an email to the Journal, he attributed the injury for which he was being treated in hospital to having been denied permission by his bail supervisor to sleep overnight at a job site where he was working, and being too tired from having to commute several hours a day.
Vader continues to face other charges in relation to two separate incidents while he has been out on bail.
In the first case, he was charged with assault on his mother’s boyfriend. In the other, he was charged with dangerous driving and six breaches of bail conditions.
His trial on the murder charges is set to begin in March 2016. jpruden@edmontonjournal.com Twitter.com/jana_ pruden