HONG KONG, Oct 27 (SCMP): The Canadian police officer who arrested Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou at Vancouver’s airport almost two years ago testified on Monday about the operation, saying safety concerns about “what she was capable of” helped sway the decision not to arrest Meng on the plane.
But Meng’s lawyer Richard Peck ridiculed the assertion by Constable Winston Yep of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), asking the officer in cross-examination if it was something that “just popped into your head” on the witness box, in the Supreme Court of British Columbia in Vancouver.
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