The Inherited Trailer

In October 2005, a travel trailer owned by an American was taken from his beachfront property in Nova Scotia. It ended up at a buyer's home in New Brunswick, where police recovered it. The Crown said the Accused and another man, charged separately, planned to steal it and sell it to that buyer. The Accused admitted posing as the owner under the owner's surname, claiming he had inherited the trailer from an uncle, and providing the sale receipt, for which the other man promised him $500. He went with the other man to the buyer's home and gave the receipt to the buyer's wife. He testified that he believed the trailer belonged to the other man, who said he wanted a third-party receipt so his family would not learn he was selling inherited property, and that he was never paid. The other man's evidence was confused and internally inconsistent, and the buyer could not recall who was with him. Was the Accused a knowing party to the theft?