Hells Angels members Robert Thomas and Norm Cocks, appeared in courtroom 67 at the Vancouver Law Courts Monday for a first appearance on a second-degree murder charge.

<div class="featured-image" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; margin-top: -1px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; clear: both; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><a href="http://postmediavancouversun.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/dain-phillips-2.jpg?w=620" style="font-family: arial, verdana, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: #035a91; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" title="Kelowna Hells Angels Appear in Vancouver on Murder Charges"><img alt="Dain Phillips 2" class="attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" height="400" src="http://postmediavancouversun.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/dain-phillips-2.jpg?w=620" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; width: 620px; height: auto; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" title="Dain Phillips 2" width="620" /></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">The seven Kelowna men accused of beating Dain Phillips to death last June have had their trial moved to Vancouver.</span></div><div class="story" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: arial, verdana, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 11px; float: left; display: inline; width: 460px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; font: normal normal normal 12px/16px Arial, sans-serif; color: #555555; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><div class="entry-content" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: arial, verdana, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 11px; float: left; width: 460px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 12px/16px Arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">All seven, including Hells Angels members Robert Thomas and Norm Cocks, appeared in courtroom 67 at the Vancouver Law Courts Monday for a first appearance  on a second-degree murder charge.</p><p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 12px/16px Arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Thomas and Cocks remain in custody, while the others – Cocks dad Robert, brothers Daniel and Matthew McRae, Thomas Vaughan and Anson Schell – are out on bail.</p><p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 12px/16px Arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Crown spokesman Neil MacKenzie said the decision to move the case to the Lower Mainland was made “given the number of the accused, the number of counsel involved and the demands the case would place on court resources in Kelowna.”</p><p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 12px/16px Arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">“The Crown perspective is that the matter should proceed in Vancouver.  As a result, the Crown filed the Direct Indictment with the Supreme Court in Vancouver,” he said.</p><p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 12px/16px Arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">There is a ban on publication on evidence and submissions in the case.</p><p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 12px/16px Arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">The trial won’t get underway until at least January 2013.</p></div></div>

Hells Angels members Robert Thomas and Norm Cocks, appeared in courtroom 67 at the Vancouver Law Courts Monday for a first appearance on a second-degree murder charge.

The seven Kelowna men accused of beating Dain Phillips to death last June have had their trial moved to Vancouver. All seven, including Hell...

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