Bailey McCourt - Part 2
4/30/202642 min
Hours after being convicted of assaulting his wife Bailey McCourt, James Plover walked out of a Kelowna courthouse on existing bail. Within three hours, she was dead, killed in a parking lot in broad daylight in front of witnesses. She was 32 years old and a mother of two.
This is Part 2 of a two-part series on the Bailey McCourt case. In this episode we cover the July 4th attack, the questions it raised about how the justice system handles intimate partner violence, and the national push for legislative change that followed. We spoke directly with members of Bailey's family, who have been advocating for Bailey's Law, Bill C-225, which passed second reading in the House of Commons with a unanimous 325 to zero vote. If you have not listened to Part 1, start there.
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First 90 secondsCaitlin· Host0:00
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Debbie Henderson· Guest0:07
Bailey was full of life, full of energy, very funny, um, so quick-witted, and wanted to-- You could see, like, she's a person who's gonna take in life to the fullest, and it's so hard to see that that flame was extinguished by somebody who should have protected her.
Graham· Host0:40
It was the afternoon of Friday, July fourth, two thousand and twenty-five, and Bailey McCort and her friend Kerry Wiebe had just finished lunch. They had been talking about what more Bailey could do to protect herself at home. It was a conversation that they had found themselves having more than once. Kerry had been through her own experience with intimate partner violence. They understood each other in a way that did not require much explanation. The two women sat in Bailey's car, continuing their conversation, planning to go back to work for the rest of the afternoon. But this wasn't a typical Friday. Bailey knew that James Plover had been in a courtroom