The appellants, David Hui and Musab Saboon, appealed their convictions for kidnapping and first-degree murder of Lee Chiodo, as well as Hui's sentence for kidnapping.
Both were convicted after a trial by judge alone and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole eligibility for 25 years.
The appellants challenged the trial judge's credibility and reliability analysis of Marshall Hardy-Fox, a Vetrovec witness whose evidence was key to the convictions.
The appellants also argued the trial judge failed to apply the proper legal test for assessing credibility and provided insufficient reasons.
The Court of Appeal dismissed all appeals, finding no error in the trial judge's assessment of Hardy-Fox's evidence, proper application of the credibility test, and adequate reasons.
The court also dismissed Hui's sentence appeal based on the parity principle.
