The Crown has abandoned its efforts to keep more than $435,000 seized by police from Kurt Churchill's home in the wake of a 2020 homicide in St. John's. Churchill was charged with murder in relation to the death of James Cody on Craigmillar Avenue five years ago. In September, those charges against Churchill were stayed, after his lawyers filed a successful Jordan application over unfair trial delays. After Cody's death, Royal Newfoundland Constabulary investigators executed a search warrant at Churchill's home, where they discovered hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash. The RCMP then launched a money laundering investigation, which did not result in any charges. The CBC’s Rob Antle reports.
