A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has rejected an application to exclude the father of a murdered 13-year-old girl from listening in remotely to post-trial proceedings.

The girl was found dead in a Metro Vancouver park in 2017, and a jury found Ibrahim Ali guilty of her first-degree murder last December.

Ali's trial lawyers, Kevin McCullough and Ben Lynskey, have been refusing to attend post-trial hearings, citing safety concerns over an allegation the girl's father brought a loaded gun to t…