VANCOUVER – The lawyer for one of two suspects in an alleged terrorism plot to bomb the B.C. legislature on Canada Day says his client has been certified under the province’s mental-health law and is currently in a forensic hospital.

John Nuttall was charged last month along with his girlfriend, Amanda Korody, in what the RCMP have described as an al-Qaeda-inspired plan to use pressure cooker bombs to target festivities on the national holiday.

The pair appeared for a brief appearance in B.C. Supreme Court, where Korody blew a kiss toward Nuttall as a judge adjourned the case until late September.

Nuttall’s lawyer, Tom Morino, says his client is currently in a forensic hospital near Vancouver after he was certified under B.C.’s Mental Health Act, though he said he wasn’t familiar with the details.

Morino declined to say whether Nuttall suffers from any mental illness, though Nuttall has a documented history of drug use and was taking methadone to treat his addiction.

Korody is represented by a different lawyer, Mark Jette, though Jette was not at the latest court appearance and couldn’t be reached.