Air India bomber appeals perjury conviction

The only man convicted in the 1985 Air India bombing, Inderjit Singh Reyat, is in B.C.'s highest court today, fighting his perjury conviction.

Reyat is serving a nine-year sentence for lying while testifying at the trials of two other men acquitted of the bombing that killed 329 people aboard an Air India flight from Vancouver.

Reyat agreed to testify in exchange for a guilty plea to a lesser charge of manslaughter linked to those deaths, but the Crown argued he lied numerous times during that testimony.

Until Reyat's term was announced last year, the longest perjury sentence in Canada was six years. Prior to being convicted of perjury, Reyat served more than 20 years in jail for manslaughter in the bombing.

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