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Former Surrey residents John Nuttall and Amanda Korody have had their terrorism convictions overturned for planting inert pressure cooker bombs on the B.C. legislature grounds.

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B.C. Supreme Court Justice Catherine Bruce on Friday confirmed defence arguments the pair were entrapped by a sophisticated, five-month RCMP undercover operation involving more than 240 officers.

Justice Bruce said the sting was an abuse of process and overturned last year’s guilty verdict that concluded that the couple were manipulated into planting devices during 2013 Canada Day celebrations with the hope of slaughtering as many celebrants and first responders as possible.

Nuttall sat in court looking pensive before the hearing and gave his mother Maureen Smith a wan smile.