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Firefighters respond to a boat fire on Vernon’s Tronson Road Friday morning. The fire occurred after the owner was repairing a fuel system on the boat, which was destroyed.
Accused selects judge-only trials KATHY MICHAELS
Court proceedings relating to the Armstrong teen slaying will go before a jury at a later date. The man charged with the murder of Armstrong Foerster was arrested in Ontario in April, teen Taylor Van Diest, has confirmed he will be skirtfollowing a manhunt for Taylor Van Diest’s ing the scrutiny of a jury in two other criminal cases killer. against him. Van Diest, 18, was badly injured near railway Matthew Foerster, 26, will deal with Cherryville tracks in Armstrong Oct. 31, 2011. She died that charges of break and enter, assault and unlawful connight in hospital of head injuries. finement stemming from a home invasion in 2004 in Family, friends and RCMP officers found front of a judge alone. the teen lying in the bushes about three metres Charges of sexual assault and unlawful confinefrom the tracks. Foerster ment relating to a 2005 incident at Kelowna’s Garden Van Diest’s family called police on Halloween of Eden will be tried in the same manner. night after she failed to meet a friend, as schedFoerster has waived his right to a preliminary hearing in uled, at 7:30 p.m. both matters. Foerster’s father, Stephen Roy Foerster, was arrested at his Black Press
home in Cherryville, the same day. The 58-year-old Cherryville resident faces charges of being an accessory in Van Diest’s murder and obstruction of justice. ■ Still with the courts, the Kelowna man charged with the 2010 murder of former North Okanagan resident Brittney Irving will be back in court later this month to fix a date for his trial. Joelon Atish Verma will appear in court Monday to set a schedule for upcoming proceedings related to the first degree murder and robbery of Irving. Irving, who still has family and friends in the North Okanagan, was reported missing in Kelowna April 7, 2010 after an alleged drug transaction gone awry. The 24-year-old’s body was found a few weeks later.
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