WATCH: The police interrogation video of Christopher Phillips was played in N.S. Supreme Court Friday. It is the first time the public got the chance to hear from Phillips himself. Julia Wong reports.
HALIFAX – An RCMP officer who was contacted by the wife of a Nova Scotia man with a stockpile of chemicals said he concluded comments in an email sent by the accused were a threat against police.
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Const. Jonathan Fraser testified today in Nova Scotia Supreme Court that Gosia Phillips approached him on Jan. 19 and asked him to dispose of dangerous chemicals that belonged to her husband, Christopher Phillips.
Fraser said he initially was concerned about Christopher Phillips’s mental health and was checking into whether he needed to be taken to a psychiatric hospital under provisions of the Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment Act.
However, the officer testified that after he viewed comments in an email sent by Christopher Phillips he believed the man could harm a police officer.
Phillips has pleaded not guilty to threatening police officers and possessing a weapon – osmium tetroxide – for a dangerous purpose.
The incident prompted evacuations in two Halifax-area communities where chemicals were found, and a search for Christopher Phillips that ended with his arrest in an Ottawa hotel on Jan. 21.
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