Kristen Peterson Has TATP Explosives Charges Dropped

Kristen Peterson, who lives in a million dollar home purchased for her by her rich father, was cleared of charges that she conspired with her long-time boyfriend who would never marry her, Byron Sonne, to plant TATP explosives to disrupt the G20 meetings in Toronto last year.

Byron meanwhile, was due in court today to face those charges alone.

From the Globe and Mail here:

Kristen Peterson, a Toronto-based visual artist, has been cleared of charges that she possessed explosives and dangerous weapons along with her computer-programmer husband in connection with last summer’s G20 summit.

Ms. Peterson was arrested at the Forest Hill home she shares with (common-law) husband Byron Sonne last June, just days after Mr. Sonne was arrested in connection with what police allege were plans for an ambitious attack leading up to the G20 summit weekend.

Both were charged with collecting ingredients to make triacetone triperoxide, a powerful explosive more commonly associated with terrorist bombings, and possessing weapons for a dangerous purpose.

Mr. Sonne, who remains in custody and whose preliminary hearings start this week, is accused of mischief and two rare charges of intimidating members of the justice system.

Ms. Peterson is now back in the couple’s Elderwood Drive home in Toronto’s treed Forest Hill neighbourhood, a house for which her father paid the million-dollar mortgage several years ago.

Wow, a rich Daddy and no real job- I mean, how much does creating visual art pay? Nothing, last I checked. She just shacks up with a guy who once threatened to blow up his high school. They call it a common law marriage, but Byron never took her to an altar. If Byron manages to avoid jail for buying TATP ingredients over the internet and then bragging about it, will he be allowed back into the house her parents paid for? See previous Kristen Peterson post here.