The Crown attorney in the first-degree murder trial of a former Kamloops lawyer says the accused methodically planned the murder of his client for more than a week.

Ann Katrine Saettler told a B.C. Supreme Court judge in Vancouver that Rogelio ‘Butch’ Bagabuyo wrote a “planning note” that reminded him to bag everything after, not to bring his mobile phone or E-watch, turn off his GPS and throw his garbage out.

“This note, which had to be written before the event, suggests he has thought about where to commit that murder and why,” she told the court Tuesday in her closing arguments.

Bagabuyo is accused of first-degree murder in the March 11, 2022, killing of his client Mohd Abdullah, a lecturer at Thompson Rivers University.

Bagabuyo’s lawyer Mark Swartz will start his final arguments o

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