CANADIAN GOVERNMENT REFUTES ALLEGATIONS THAT IT TERRORISED RUSSIAN SUICIDE VICTIM
February 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL, EMMA JACKSON and MIRIAM ELDER
THE CANADIAN government has denied using its security forces to intimidate and terrorise a Russian immigrant, who later fled to Britain and committed suicide this week, jumping with his family from a Glasgow tower block. Serguei Serykh had claimed in an asylum application that Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper had ordered his security forces to pump radiation into his Toronto home to warp his brain patterns, causing him to escape the country in 2007. Mr Serykh also claimed receiving letters from the Canadian ...
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