VANCOUVER — A lawyer from Kamloops, B.C., accused of first-degree murder in the death of his client admits to killing the man but says it should be manslaughter, his lawyer told the court on Monday.

As closing arguments were about to start at the trial of Rogelio 'Butch' Bagabuyo, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Kathleen Ker confirmed with the accused's lawyer that his written submissions are that his client concedes to killing Mohd Abdullah, but that he should be convicted of the lesser charge.

"That is correct," Mark Swartz told the judge.

However, Crown lawyer Ann Katrine Saettler told the judge-alone trial in her closing submissions that Bagabuyo concocted a plan to kill his client, then attempted to hide the body.

She told the court that Abdullah, a lecturer at Thompson Rivers Universi

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