Judge Orders Bitcoin Wallet Returned to Family of Convicted Canadian Killer
Summary
A Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge ordered the return to William Sandeson’s family of a seized laptop containing a Bitcoin wallet, ruling prosecutors failed to show the cryptocurrency was connected to the 2015 murder or drug deal. The judge said the alleged link was hypothetical. About C$5,000 in cash seized from Sandeson’s apartment was instead deemed offence-related property and will not be returned. Sandeson is serving a life sentence for the 2023 second-degree murder conviction of Taylor Samson; the wallet’s Bitcoin value is unknown, though a lawyer in a separate wrongful-death case has estimated it could now exceed C$200,000.
