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Surrey Six investigators appeal heading to Supreme Court of Canada

Court will hear appeals of a 2015 ruling from the B.C. Supreme Court and a 2017 decision from the B.C. Court of Appeal.

4 RCMP investigators accused of inappropriate conduct with protected witness

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A member of the RCMP walks past a car being towed from the apartment building where the Surrey Six killings took place on Oct. 21, 2007. More than two dozen officers combed over the apartment looking for evidence in the days following the shooting. (Jonathan Hayward/Canadian Press)

Canada's highest court has agreed to hear an appeal involving four RCMP officers who investigated the so-called Surrey Six murders in Surrey, B.C.

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled it will hear special prosecutor Chris Considine's appeals of a 2015 ruling from the B.C. Supreme Court and a 2017 decision from the B.C. Court of Appeal.

Court-imposed bans prohibit the release of details but the high court says the matters relate to allegations that four RCMP officers involved in the murder investigation engaged in inappropriate conduct while managing a protected witness.

People line up to be screened to enter the B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver on Sept. 30, 2013. The trial of the 2007 Surrey mass murder that left six dead opened in Vancouver that fall. (Jonathan Hayward/Canadian Press)

RCMP officers Derek Brassington and Paul Johnston, David Attew and Danny Michaud face charges including breach of trust, obstruction of justice and fraud.

These charges laid in 2011 stem from the investigation of the gang-related murders of six men, including two innocent bystanders, in a Surrey high rise in October 2007.

The trial for the four men was expected to begin in 2013, but has been delayed repeatedly.

An RCMP cruiser blocks the road leading to an apartment building in Surrey, B.C. on Oct. 20, 2007, as a multiple homicide in one of the suites is investigated. Six men were killed in a bloody massacre. (Richard Lam/Canadian Press)

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