CP NewsAlert: Counsel for OPCC resigns from Myles Gray hearing over obscenity

By Canadian Press on January 26, 2026.

VANCOUVER — The counsel for the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner of British Columbia at the hearing into the 2015 death of Myles Gray says he is resigning from the long-awaited proceeding after coming under a B.C. Law Society investigation for an obscenity uttered last week.

Richard Neary, the lawyer for Brad Hickford, read a statement by his client saying he is “bewildered and troubled” by a recording of the obscenity that was captured on an audio stream of the hearing in Vancouver last Wednesday, and he is withdrawing with “almost unbearable regret.”

Adjudicator Elizabeth Arnold-Bailey says the “unfortunate and vulgar” remark appeared to have been directed at either her or a female lawyer representing one of the officers involved in Gray’s death, but she has doubts about who said it.

More coming.

The Canadian Press