VANCOUVER – The lawyer for a Mountie charged with perjury for his testimony at the Robert Dziekanski inquiry says there is no evidence the four officers involved in the case got together to come up with a story to tell homicide investigators.

Instead, Peter Wilson, who is representing Const. Bill Bentley at his perjury trial, says the “frailty of human memory” explains why the officers made mistakes when they gave their initial accounts of what happened.

The Crown alleges Bentley and the other officers colluded to create a story to tell homicide investigators the night Dziekanski was stunned with a Taser at Vancouver’s airport in October 2007.

The Crown claims the officers then lied at a public inquiry to cover up their collusion.

Wilson notes the officers’ statements to homicide investigators do contain similarities, but he says many of the civilian witnesses recalled seeing the same thing.

Wilson says Bentley, who wasn’t carrying a Taser and had limited involvement in the confrontation, had no reason to lie to minimize his role.