Dad of Canucks’ Vey pleads not guilty in family murder conspiracy

Not-guilty plea in Sask. conspiracy case The father of Vancouver Canuck forward Linden Vey plead not guilty of conspiring to kill his wife as the trial began in Prince Albert, Sask.

The father of Vancouver Canucks forward Linden Vey has plead not guilty of conspiring to kill his wife as the trial began in Prince Albert, Sask. Tuesday morning.

Curtis Vey was charged in 2013 in Saskatchewan, along with his alleged mistress Angela Nicholson, who has also plead not guilty to the charges.

RCMP say Vey was having an affair with Nicholson, and the pair were plotting to kill their partners.

The Crown plans to call 11 witnesses, including Brigette Vey, Curtis’ wife and one of the alleged victims.

RCMP Cpl. Derek Wierzbicki told the court Brigitte suspected her husband of cheating on her and used an iPod to secretly record him on the telephone.

Wierzbicki said she then phoned police and told them she had a recording of her husband plotting to kill her, as well as Jim Taylor, Nicholson’s husband.

Brigitte told Mounties she overheard the accused discussing a plot in which she would die in a house fire and Taylor would die of an overdose on Halloween.

A police investigation found a will stating Nicholson would inherit Taylor’s farm, but he said he planned on leaving his land to the couple’s two grown daughters and had yet to write up a will.

The case is being heard by a jury at the Saskatchewan Court of Queen’s Bench in Prince Albert, and is expected to last nine days.

With files from CTV Vancouver's Ben Miljure