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Accused killer Jamie Bacon’s murder trial has been delayed until March 2018, more than a decade after the Surrey Six murders he is alleged to have plotted.

B.C. Supreme Court Justice Kathleen Ker said Friday that the adjournment was necessary because of a series of complex pre-trial applications related to evidence and other issues that have not yet been heard.

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She said the original Oct. 31 trial date is now “completely unrealistic in light of the fact that there are a number of lengthy and complicated pretrial applications outstanding.”

One of them, she said, was a defence motion to stay the charges against the notorious gangster due to the lengthy delay in getting to trial.

Ker referenced a Supreme Court of Canada ruling in July, staying trafficking charges against a B.C. man named Barrett Jordan because he had waited more than four years to go to trial.

“I understand the defence is finalizing framing its Jordan application seeking a stay of proceedings,” Ker said.