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A JURY HAS FOUND A KITIMAT MAN GUILTY
OF MURDERING HIS 17 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER. RAJINDER SINGH ATWAL SHOWED NO EMOTION
WHEN THE PANEL OF SEVEN WOMEN AND FIVE MEN PRONOUNCED HIM GUILTY OF SECOND
DEGREE MURDER OF AMANDEEP ATWAL. HIS WIFE, AMANDEEP’S MOTHER BROKE
DOWN WHEN THE VERDICT WAS READ. SECOND-DEGREE MURDER CARRIES A MANDATORY LIFE SENTENCE. JUSTICE CATHERINE WEDGE WILL DECIDE WHETHER ATWAL WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR PAROLE IN 10 OR 25 YEARS AT A LATER HEARING. IN JULY 2003 ATWAL ARRIVED AT LANGLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL WITH THE BLOODY BODY OF HIS DAUGHTER IN THE FAMILY CAR. WITNESSES SAY HE TOLD THEM AMANDEEP STABBED HERSELF WHILE HE WAS OUT OF THE CAR. A PATHOLOGIST WHO TESTIFIED FOR THE CROWN SAID THAT OF THE 11 STAB WOUNDS AMANDEEP RECEIVED, AT LEAST ONE TO HER FACE OCCURRED AFTER SHE WAS ALREADY DEAD. THERE WAS ALSO TESTIMONY ABOUT TROUBLE IN THE FAMILY HOME BECAUSE OF THE TEEN’S PLAN TO MOVE-IN WITH HER BOYFRIEND. THE ATWAL FAMILY PLANS TO APPEAL THE DECISION. |
THE DEPARTMENT OF FISHERIES AND OCEANS
WILL BEGIN ITS ANNUAL STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF SEALICE ON JUVENILE SALMON
NEXT WEEK. THE BROUGHTON ARCHIPELAGO AREA OFF THE COAST OF VANCOUVER ISLAND IS BEING STUDIED FROM NEXT MONDAY THROUGH TO LATE JULY. BIOLOGISTS HOPE TO DETERMINE WHAT IMPACT SEALICE HAVE ON JUVENILE SALMON’S HEALTH AND LIFE. THIS IS THE THIRD ANNUAL STUDY. LAST YEAR THE NUMBER OF JUVENILE SALMON INFECTED BY SEALICE INCREASED DRAMATICALLY SINCE 2003. THE DEPARTMENT’S BIOLOGIST SIMON JONES SAYS SEALICE CAN BE CONTROLLED ON SALMON FARMS SO THEY WANT TO FIND OUT IF SEALICE ARE IN FACT SPREADING FROM FARMED FISH TO WILD FISH. LAST YEAR ALL ADULT SALMON SAMPLED HAD SOME SEALICE ON THEM. THIS MAY SOUND SAD BUT SCIENTISTS SAY THEY HAVE NOT PROVEN WHETHER SEALICE ARE HARMFUL FOR SALMON. BY THIS TIME NEXT YEAR THE D-F-O HOPES TO HAVE MORE INFORMATION ON THE EFFECTS OF SEALICE. |
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