Metro Vancouver - January 5, 2012

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by  Metro International

DECOR TAKES SHAPE
ENGAGED?
BIG ON CURVES, BOLD
ON FLORALS
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TIMBERLAKE POPS
QUESTION TO BIEL:
REPORTS
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VANCOUVER
Thursday,
January 5, 2012
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B.C.’s trial lawyers will consider general’s office, Gill added, they’ll
withdrawing services from gang consider withdrawing from serious
and murder trials if Victoria does- criminal cases.
n’t boost legal-aid funding. Thirty-eight of the province’s 70
“It’s something that nobody courthouses will have no duty
wants, but if it’s the only way to get counsel this week, and the remain-
the government’s attention, then ing ones are operating on a mini-
that’s how it’s going to have to go,” mal duty-counsel level.
said Rishi Gill, a Vancouver crimi- Lawyers are planning to with-
nal lawyer and co-chair of the Tri- draw duties for the first two weeks
al Lawyers Association of B.C.’s in February, three weeks in March
legal-aid action committee. and all of April, if demands for
“I don’t think this helps society increased legal funding aren’t met.
in the short term. It’s ... something TLABC claims the provincial gov-
we wish could be stopped, but the ernment generates roughly $100
only way to stop it is to fund the million annually through taxation
system properly.” on legal fees, but that tax revenue
The first wave of duty-counsel is not directed to legal aid.
service withdrawals has begun and “It’s not about lawyers trying to
Vancouver’s Nazanin Afshin-Jam, seen here in Yaletown in 2007, married will escalate in the coming months. get money for themselves,” Gill
Defence Minister Peter MacKay Wednesday in Mexico. Afshin-Jam, the first Duty counsel typically represents said, adding governments have cut
runner-up in the 2003 Miss World competition, is a singer and activist. Story, page 10. people for first-time appearances at least $50 million in funding in
and offers the first legal advice to the last two decades. “It’s about try-
Defence minister weds Vancouver bJEFrF HOiDSOdN/METeRO FILE a detained individual. ing to make sure that people have
If the current job action doesn’t fair and equitable access to justice.”
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Teen boy
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dumptruck
ABBOTSFORD. A 12-year-
old boy suffered serious
injuries to his lower
body when he was news
struck by a dumptruck
while crossing the road
in Abbotsford Wednes-
day morning.
A group of children
were crossing Bevan Av-
enue at Ware Street just
before 8 a.m., police
said, when the boy was
hit by the recycling
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off Ware Street. METRO
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 2012
Be careful who you trust
Better Business Bureau warns of scams that could cost you cash — and heartache It stresses: Be vigilant
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more scammers are out to
gain their trust.
“Scammers are turning
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ly persuade people to give (a.k.a. phishing) schemes sales
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financial information,” How it works:Scammers How it works:Last year’s required to set up an on- How it works: Salespeo- introduction of smart me-
BBB president and CEO impersonate trusted com- gold rush has resulted in line account to place bids ple use pressure tactics ters by BC Hydro, more
Lynda Pasacreta said panies and government consumers cashing in on iPads and other elec- to force or frighten peo- scammers are posting
Wednesday. organizations by sending their gold, but tronics, with each bid of- ple into buying false or deceptive ads
Carolyn Sinclair, execu- email links to get person- sometimes receiving ten costing less than a expensive, substandard about energy-saving
tive director of the B.C. al and financial informa- unfair returns. dollar. The catch: You still or unneeded products devices that don’t actual-
Crime Prevention Associa- tion. What to do:Do your re- have to cough up cash for and services like roofing, ly work and don’t meet
tion, said: “If you are a vic- What to do:Delete the search. Choose a local ap- bids you placed, even if repairs and vacuums. safety standards.
tim, (don’t) be ashamed (or messages and do not praiser who you know you didn’t win the item. What to do:If you feel What to do:Do your re-
afraid) to come forward.” click on any links. and trust. Get multiple What to do:Read all the threatened, ask them to search before buying.
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 2012
Mubarak instigated Racist U.K. killers jailed
killings: Prosecutor
for decades-old murder
The prosecution in the Hos- incided with the second day
ni Mubarak trial said on of voting in the third and fi-
Wednesday it has conclud- nal round of parliamentary
ed that Egypt’s ex-presi- elections that began on Two white men sentenced for FAMILY HANDOUT/PA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
dent, his security chief and Nov. 28. Even before the fi-
1993 killing of black teenager Stephen Lawrence in an
six top police officers were nal round, Islamists led by
undated family handout
the “actual instigators” of the Muslim Brotherhood,
photo.
the killing of more than Egypt’s largest political A young black man lay dy- quiry, vowed Wednesday to
800 protesters during last group, were assured a ma- ing in a south London bus continue to hunt for the re-
year’s popular uprising. jority in the legislature. stop. His friend called fran- maining killers.
Mubarak and his seven They are likely to bolster tically for help while a gang “The other people in-
co-defendants are facing their gains in the final of white teenagers who had volved in the murder of
charges of complicity in the round, since many of the stabbed him ran off. Two Stephen Lawrence should
killings and could face the nine provinces voting have members of that gang were not rest easily in their
death penalty if convicted. been Islamist strongholds. sentenced Wednesday for beds,” said Bernard Hogan-
Wednesday’s hearing co- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS the 1993 murder of Howe, commissioner of
Stephen Lawrence, but London’s Metropolitan Po-
three more remain at large. lice.
Judge Colman Treacy The saga of Lawrence’s
Argentina’s president
Wednesday sentenced Gary murder, and his parents’
Dobson to at least 15 years long quest for justice in the
recovering after surgery
and two months in jail, and face of police indifference,
David Norris to at least 14 has for many come to sym-
NATACHA PISARENKO/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE years and three months for bolize Britain’s lingering
Argentina’s president was the murder of the teenager, racial trauma.
awake and recovering and urged police to contin- It has embarrassed Scot-
Wednesday after a three- ue looking for new leads in land Yard, which was found
and-a-half-hour operation to the case. by an official inquiry to be
remove her cancerous thy- He told the men they guilty of systematic racism.
roid gland. were guilty of “a terrible And while Lawrence’s fami-
Cristina Fernandez’s sur- and evil crime” committed ly said it was pleased with
gery went without compli- out of blind hatred. the convictions, it said jus- likely to be. death.
cations and all her vital “A totally innocent 18- tice will not be served until But the police failed to And Britain’s police
signs were good, her year-old youth on the all the killers face trial. act until Lawrence’s parents forces still struggle to con-
Cristina Fernandez
spokesman Alfredo Scocci- threshold of a promising Lawrence’s father Neville held a news conference to vince ethnic minorities that
marro announced, prompt- life was brutally cut down said the sentencing of Dob- criticize the way the police they handle cases with sen-
ing cheers and applause the right side of her thyroid in the street in front of eye son and Norris for his son’s had handled the case. It sitivity. The parents of Indi-
from supporters gathered gland. Vice-President witnesses by a racist thug- murder was “only one step was the first salvo in a long an student Anuj Bidve, who
outside the hospital. Amado Boudou was put in gish gang,” Treacy said. in a long, long journey.” battle the Lawrence family was shot and killed on a
Doctors had expected a charge before the opera- “You were both members of Dobson and Norris were were to fight with police night out in Salford, north-
routine surgery and pre- tion, and will remain as the that gang.” part of a notorious gang and courts. east England on Dec. 26,
dicted a complete cure country’s constitutional Police, who have been that terrorized part of The sheer length of time complained that they
without chemotherapy, leader for 20 more days accused in the last two south London, and many it has taken to prosecute learned about their son’s
since preoperative tests while Fernandez takes med- decades of incompetence people told police in the the case has taken its toll. death from Facebook be-
showed the cancer had not ical leave, the president’s of- and racism in the way they days following Lawrence’s Lawrence’s parents di- fore British police contact-
spread beyond a nodule on fice said. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS handled the murder in- death who his killers were vorced six years after his ed them. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 2012
Child-porn bishop freed from jail
SEAN KILPATRICK/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Lahey out on probation after serving eight months
in prison Gets two-for-one credit for time served
STEVE Online
COLLINS Dr. John Bradford,
[email protected] porn helps head of the division of
METRO CANADA IN OTTAWA forensic psychiatry of the
cut abuse: University of Ottawa, has
A Catholic bishop caught at testified as an expert in
the Ottawa airport with Expert numerous criminal trials
hundreds of child-porn im- and was a defence
ages on his laptop was re- witness at Lahey’s
leased Wednesday after sentencing hearing.
receiving a sentence of 15 The key witness in His conclusion that La-
months — only eight of Raymond Lahey’s hey was not a risk to chil-
which he actually served sentencing is working on dren and, in fact, not a
behind bars. research he believes will pedophile, despite
Raymond Lahey, 71, for- show that sexual possessing images and
merly bishop of Antigo- deviants who consume videos of children and
nish, N.S., pleaded guilty child pornography are teens, was a key part of
eight months ago to posses- less likely to abuse the defence argument for
In this 2011 file photo, Raymond Lahey
sion of child pornography children now that child a lesser sentence.
arrives at the Ottawa courthouse.
for the purposes of impor- porn has gone online. JESSICA SMITH IN OTTAWA
tation and asked to begin
serving his sentence imme-
diately. “pre-sentencing” time His lawyer, Michael Edel- sentence.” satisfied with the sentence. tences which are also met-
Wednesday, Justice Kent served, Lahey was freed. He son, had recommended the The jail time, Edelson “It’ll serve to announce to ed out to ensure the protec-
Kirkland sentenced him to will be on probation for minimum one-year sen- added, is just the begin- others that harsh sentences tion of our children,” said
15 months, but because he two years and registered as tence, but said Kirkland im- ning. are in place for those who Crown prosecutor David El-
got two-for-one credit for a sex offender for 20 years. posed “exactly the right Prosecutors were also commit such crimes, sen- hadad.
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 2012
L.A. arson suspect put on suicide watch
ONSCENE.TV/THE ASSOC IATE D PR ESS
A German man and former erate with investigators country of Germany for a
Mother in trouble
Vancouver resident charged since his arrest on suspi- house fire north of Frank-
Wednesday for allegedly cion of starting dozens of furt days before he trav-
setting a string of fires car fires in and around the elled to the U.S. in October. Harry Burkhart’s mother,
across Los Angeles on New city that caused an estimat- The fire at the house, Dorothee Burkhart, is
Year’s weekend has been ed $3 million US in dam- which belonged to the charged in Germany with
put on suicide watch, a law age. Burkhart family, has been 19 counts of fraud, includ-
enforcement official said. Authorities said they be- ruled an arson, Marburg ing failing to pay for a
Harry Burkhart, 24, has lieve he was angry over his prosecutors’ spokeswoman 2004 breast augmentation
been in custody since Mon- mother’s legal troubles and Annemarie Wied said. surgery and pilfering secu-
day, when he was arrested went on an arson rampage Burkhart did not live in rity deposits from renters.
in Hollywood. Burkhart’s a day after she made an ini- the area, but his name sur- A Frankfurt court
mother Dorothee Burkhart tial court appearance last In this still photo, taken from video released on Jan. 2 faced as a suspect after he spokesman said Dorothee
said in court Tuesday that week. by OnScene.tv, arson suspect Harry Burkhart is filed an insurance claim Burkhart will go on trial
her son is mentally ill. Burkhart is also under arrested in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. shortly after the fire, Wied for the fraud charges once
He has refused to co-op- investigation in his home said. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS she is extradited.
Canadian’s killing to MacKay weds
in Mexico on Wednesday. forward to spending more often voted the sexiest male
girlfriend He released a statement time at home in Central No- MP in polls by the Parlia-
be fully probed: Cops on his constituency website va and sharing our happi- mentary newspaper The
in Mexico announcing the nuptials, ness with all of you,” said Hill Times, has been en-
which took place in front of MacKay. gaged before but never
Mexican police have prom- when he stood up to two family and friends. Afshin-Jam, 32, is a hu- married. Lisa Merrithew,
ised a thorough investiga- suspects who tried to rob a One of Ottawa’s most eligi- “Since coming into my man-rights activist and who is the daughter of Ger-
tion into the shooting death friend’s home in Melaque, ble bachelors is now offi- life, many of you have met president of Stop Child Exe- ald Merrithew, another for-
of a B.C. man during an ap- south of Puerto Vallarta. cially off the market. Nazanin on her many visits cutions, which tries to draw mer Mulroney-era cabinet
parent home invasion. Wood was taken to hos- Defence Minister Peter to Nova Scotia. She is the attention to the young peo- minister, was his first fi-
Police say Robin Wood, pital after the attack, where MacKay quietly married his most important person in ple who are on death row in ancée, but their relation-
67, of Salt Spring Island, he died of a gunshot girlfriend Nazanin Afshin- my life and over the coming Iran. ship ended seven years ago.
B.C., was killed Tuesday wound. THE CANADIAN PRESS Jam at a private ceremony months, Nazanin and I look MacKay, who has been THE CANADIAN PRESS
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