Toronto’s Fake Beard Bandit served his time and was due to be married. Now he’s charged in a triple
Source: National Post
Toronto’s Fake Beard Bandit served his time and was due to be married. Now he’s charged in a triple murder
Joseph Brean and Victor Ferreira | August 26, 2016 10:45 PM ET
Alleged Toronto crossbow killer Brett Ryan pled guilty to eight robbery charges in 2008
After serving a three-year sentence, Brett Anthony Ryan seemed to have a decent shot at overcoming his criminal past as Toronto’s Fake Beard Bandit, a serial robber notorious among bank tellers for his campy disguise of a stick-on beard, dark glasses and a hat.
Despite declaring bankruptcy from prison, he lived until this week in an upscale condo tower on Toronto’s central waterfront, and was due to be married in a luxurious country setting next month to a woman who works in a downtown hospital as a physiotherapist.
But then came Thursday’s carnage, one of the worst mass killings in recent Canadian memory, made all the more horrifying by the unusual murder weapon, allegedly a crossbow, and by the subsequent evacuation of the streets around Ryan’s condo after police learned of a potential bomb threat inside.
Ryan, 35, appeared briefly in a Toronto courtroom Friday to be charged in the shocking triple murder of a woman and two men, who cannot be identified because of a court-ordered publication ban. He was dressed in a white forensic suit because his bloodstained clothes were seized as evidence, and he did not appear to be injured.
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