Surrey Six shooting victim’s mother disappointed at reports of Jamie Bacon plea deal

SURREY (NEWS 1130) – There are reports a deal has been reached that will see former Red Scorpion leader Jamie Bacon plead guilty this week to a role in the Surrey Six murders.

The case involves the execution-style killings of a drug trafficker and three associates, along with bystanders Ed Schellenberg and Chris Mohan at a Surrey apartment tower in 2007. They were shot in what are probably the most high profile gang-related killings in Metro Vancouver.

Mohan’s mother, Eileen, is upset at rumblings a plea deal has been reached, saying she’s afraid Bacon — who has been in jail since 2009 — will be free in just a few years.

“I’m very disappointed because I literally wanted to see Mr. Bacon, you know, serve 25 years,” she tells NEWS 1130, adding a plea deal isn’t what she anticipated. “I wanted him to get the first-degree murder charge, 25 years, and if I had my way, if it was my wish, I would have had him serve 25 years for each death that occurred that day.

“No matter who the other four were, they were somebody’s son, somebody’s brother, somebody’s uncle. And they had families.”

Vancouver Sun crime reporter Kim Bolan reports the gangster will submit his admission on Thursday, pleading guilty to playing a role in the murders and, in a separate case, counselling someone to shoot an associate in 2008.

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Eileen says the death of her son “destroyed” her family.

“I know [Bacon’s] been in jail since 2009 and it’s 2020 now, so how much longer will he serve jail time for the murders that occurred?” she asks. “As a society, we have to really look at this with sheer seriousness because my son’s life was taken at the doorstep of my home when he was going out about his business. Going to his basketball game. Where you’re supposed to be safe and secure. For a killer to hire his friends to kill his rivals and to take my son’s life, what type of message is it going to tell society if he’s given a lenient plea deal and he’s walking in our streets say in seven years from now, six years from now?”

Saying she’s been “sitting on pins and needles,” Eileen tells NEWS 1130 she hasn’t been notified of a potential plea deal directly.

Adding she’s “broken hearted” over the prospect of an agreement, Eileen says she and other family members have been kept in the dark.

“When they have a plea deal like this, we’re not informed … We’re not even taken into confidence when things like this are happening and nobody takes our advice,” she explains.

The deal — along with an agreement on sentencing — was apparently reached Monday, Bolan reports, when lawyers involved in both cases met with a B.C. Supreme Court Justice. More details are expected when Bacon appears via video-link Thursday afternoon.

Bacon was in the middle of a trial for counselling to commit murder in an attempt to kill an associate in 2008 and a new trial had been ordered for Bacon in April for conspiracy and first-degree murder in the Surrey Six case.

Bolan reports both cases are now being heard by a single judge.