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Infamous Penticton criminal Thomas Kruger-Allen gets new trial date after missing witnesses delay start

Kruger-Allen trial set

The latest trial of an infamous Penticton criminal will now not take place until the fall.

Thomas Kruger-Allen, known as the man behind an ambush at the Mule Nightclub in 2017 and a brutal attack on Okanagan Beach that left a stranger in a coma in 2019, is now facing charges of break-and-enter, assault with a weapon aggravated assault, uttering threats and breaching court-ordered conditions related to an alleged October 2019 home invasion, as he had been out on bail after the beach attack at the time.

Kruger-Allen had been due to start trial in early May, but that hit a snag while Crown prosecutors scrambled to find missing witnesses.

Crown announced two of their key witnesses due to appear were nowhere to be found. A third witness, also described as key to the case, had been uncooperative.

"The Crown case rests almost entirely on the evidence of those three witnesses,” Crown counsel told the judge in May.

Finally on Tuesday, a new trial date was set. There will be a pre-trial conference on Aug. 12, and Kruger-Allen will stand trial beginning Sept. 13.

Kruger-Allen is currently incarcerated serving a five-year sentence for the Okanagan Beach attack.



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