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Tuesday August 28, 2012 Serving Surrey and North Delta www.surreyleader.com
Accused killer of Laura Szendrei cannot be named
Court proceedings begin in Delta teen’s murder case by Jeff Nagel THE CROWN’S CASE against the
young man accused in the beating murder of North Delta teen Laura Szendrei is being laid out in a Surrey court room this week. The preliminary inquiry opened in Surrey Provincial Court Monday morning but the actual trial will come later, if a judge determines there’s sufficient evidence to proceed. The 18-year-old male who was arrested in February, 2011 cannot be named because he was 17 at the time of Szendrei’s death. Szendrei, a 15-year-old student at Burnsview Secondary, Laura Szendrei was found badly beaten in Delta’s Mackie Park on Sept. 25, 2010 and later died in hospital. The killing continues to send shockwaves through the community, according to Delta Mayor Lois Jackson. “Even though it’s been two years, it’s very alive in people’s memory,” she said. “Nothing of course will bring her back but we still have a major See SZENDREI / Page 5
Ron Graham, general manager of K-Bro Linen Systems in Burnaby, oversees the washing of some 3.5 million pounds of linen items each year from 18 area hospitals and long-term care centres. Each day, 10,000 pounds of linens to be washed are trucked in from Surrey Memorial Hospital (SMH) alone. In the last of a five-part special series on the ‘hidden’ side of health care at SMH, learn how the hospital gets is whites so white, and blues so blue, on Page 3.
Surrey man gunned down in driveway
Christopher Pammenter killed in alleged gang shooting by Kevin Diakiw A MAN WAS killed last week in what’s believed to be a gang-related shooting in
North Surrey. Police say Christopher Pammenter, 46, was in his vehicle in the driveway of his home in the 15800-block of 110 Avenue in Fraser Heights. At about 11:45 p.m. Thursday (Aug. 23) several shots rang out in the area. When police arrived, they found Pammenter suffering from gunshot wounds.
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