Inderjit Singh Reyat

Inderjit Singh Reyat is a marine mechanic from Duncan, on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, who was convicted over the bombs of 23 June 1985. The Canadian Encyclopedia says he was convicted of manslaughter for his role in building the two bombs: the one that destroyed Air India Flight 182, and the one that exploded at Tokyo's Narita Airport and killed two baggage handlers. This page keeps to court findings and published reports.

Key moments

• 4 June 1985: CSIS agents followed Talwinder Singh Parmar to Duncan, where he met Reyat and a man dubbed Mr. X. The three went into a wooded area, and the agents soon heard an explosion (The Canadian Encyclopedia).
• November 1985: after police searches, the only charges laid were minor ones for possessing explosives. Reyat was fined $2,000, and in 1986 he moved his family to England.
• February 1988: British police charged him with making the bomb that exploded at Narita Airport, the Rae report says. He was extradited to Canada in December 1989.
• 10 May 1991: Justice Paris of the British Columbia Supreme Court convicted him of manslaughter over the two deaths at Narita and sentenced him to 10 years.
• 6 June 2001: new charges, including murder, were laid over the Air India deaths.
• 10 February 2003: he pleaded guilty to one count of manslaughter for helping to build one of the Air India bombs. The other charges were stayed and he was sentenced to a further five years.
• September 2003: called as a Crown witness at the trial of Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri, he said he could not remember key details of the plot. In the 2005 judgment that acquitted the two men, Justice Josephson found his evidence dishonest, the Rae report says.
• 19 September 2010: a jury convicted him of perjury for lying at the Air India trial, and Justice Mark McEwan sentenced him to nine years. The judge said he had behaved nothing like a remorseful man.
• January 2016: he was released to a halfway house. A year later the parole board allowed him to move back home.

Remembered for: building the bombs, on the courts' findings, and for what he would not say. The report that Bob Rae wrote in November 2005 for Canada's Minister of Public Safety notes that Reyat had refused to name any other conspirators.