CP NewsAlert: Former B.C. lawyer guilty of first-degree murder

By Canadian Press on February 3, 2026.

KAMLOOPS — A former Kamloops, B.C., lawyer who stole almost $800,000 from a client, stabbed him to death then smuggled the body out of his office in a tote bag has been convicted of first-degree murder.

Rogelio “Butch” Bagabuyo was accused of killing of Mohd Abdullah, a lecturer at Thompson Rivers University, on March 11, 2022.

More coming.

The Canadian Press