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A former BC child star had plans to drive to Ottawa and kill Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after he killed his mother in April 2020.
The details were revealed in court on Monday during the first day of the sentencing hearing for 24-year-old extortionist Ryan Grantham.
In March, Grantham pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for the murder of his mother.
Barbara Waite was found dead in her Squamish home on April 1, 2020.
Police had rushed to the Government Road home for a welfare check.
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On Monday in court, Crown read the agreed-upon statement that Grantham shot his mother in the back of the head while playing the piano.
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The next day he loaded his car with pistols, ammunition, Molotov cocktails, camping gear and a map to Rideau Cottage in Ottawa, where Trudeau lives.
Documents said Grantham talked about killing Trudeau to police when he was arrested and wrote about it in his diary.
In the days leading up to his mother’s death, Grantham was filmed in front of the camera pretending to walk away from the murder and in another he described what happened. The video was shown in court.
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The court heard that Grantham began driving east, but only reached Hope.
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He then turned around and planned to kill people at random at Lions Gate Bridge or Simon Fraser University.
Grantham drove to Vancouver but turned himself in to police.
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Grantham recently appeared on the BC-based Riverdale TV show and has a long list of credits, including The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnasus, Supernatural, and iZombie.
The second-degree murder carries an automatic life sentence without the possibility of parole for 10 years.
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