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Federal lawyers have launched an all-out attack on the factual findings of the B.C. Supreme Court justice who acquitted the 2013 Canada Day terror plot bombers and called the scheme a police-manufactured crime.

In the opening of three days of arguments at the B.C. Court of Appeal in Vancouver Monday, prosecutors insisted Justice Catherine Bruce was wrong on nearly ever count and made “palpable and over-riding” errors that must be overturned.

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“The thrust of the submission is the trial judge failed to grapple with the true facts in a critical context in arriving at the conclusion she did,” said Chris Greenwood, of the Public Prosecution Service.

Bruce in July 2016 stayed a jury guilty verdict and acquitted of terrorism offences John Nuttall and Amanda Korody, impoverished Surrey residents with addiction issues who had converted to Islam in 2011.

She did not accept the findings of the jurors and concluded the duo had been entrapped by police in a lengthy multimillion-dollar RCMP undercover sting that also involved the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.