Accused terror suspect supported ‘violent jihad’, says Crown lawyer
OTTAWA – A federal lawyer says a doctor of pathology from London, Ont., joined a group dedicated to supporting violent jihad by whatever means possible.
Khurram Syed Sher, 31, is being tried by judge alone in Ontario Superior Court.
He has pleaded not guilty to a charge of conspiring to facilitate terrorism.
Crown prosecutor Jason Wakely says Sher agreed with two others to raise money, take paramilitary training, make and use explosives, and scout targets in Canada.
Wakely says Sher provided money in support of fighters overseas before his August 2010 arrest.
Police claimed at the time that the alleged plot stretched from Ottawa to Afghanistan, Dubai, Iran and Pakistan.
Sher, a graduate of Montreal’s McGill University, worked as an anatomical pathologist at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital in St. Thomas, Ont., south of London.
He made international headlines shortly after his arrest when it emerged he had once sung and danced on the Canadian Idol program.
He has been free on bail, under strict conditions, for years.
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