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Trial in ’09 double murder under way
16 Avenue proposal ‘treated as garbage,’ says Fox
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Discussion on one of the most pressing items on the agenda for Langley Township’s series of meetings on Monday disintegrated when council members, after almost 10 hours of meetings, sniped at each other, interrupted each other, and questioned the wording, rather than the meat, of Councillor Charlie Fox’s motion. The intent of the motion was explore ways to improve traffic safety along 16 Avenue. The motion was placed on the agenda several days before a Surrey couple, both 76, were killed last Thursday when their vehicle Charlie struck a dump truck Fox head-on. The motion said that when the new Port Mann Bridge becomes fully operational and tolls are in place, more drivers will use 16 Avenue and “will bring with it greater cause for safety and access concerns.” Noting an increase in traffic accidents that have taken lives and damaged property, Fox said that the Township should approach Surrey and the Ministry of Transportation to seek a direct access from 16 Avenue to Highway 99. The motion also calls for staff to prepare a report, with TransLink engineers, on improving traffic flow and how it impacts residents, the possible use of a ‘green wave” in which future traffic lights are synchronized, and roundabouts. Councillors added their own suggestions, while questioning the wording.
Miranda GATHERCOLE/Langley Times
Entertaining crowds at the annual Country Celebration in Campbell Valey Park on Sunday, Sept. 16, proved to be a tall order.
At 3:30 a.m. on March 19, 2009, HiKnoll Park area resident Gerald Peterson and his wife were awakened by the noise of several gunshots. With his dog barking, Peterson looked out the window to see a car pull out of the park’s parking lot. Then he and his wife went back to bed. Two hours later, when Peterson’s two sons arrived at his home to travel to work together, their father sent them to the park to see if something had happened overnight. At 5:45 a.m. he arrived at the park in his vehicle to see the body of Marc Bontkes, lying face up beside a mini van. His sons had already called 911. Peterson testified at the double murder trial of Robert David Bradshaw in New Westminster’s B.C. Supreme Court on Wednesday. Bradshaw is accused of firing the shots that killed Bontkes, 33. He is also charged in the murder of 36-year-old Laura Lynn Lamoureux, five days earlier. Lead forensic identification investigator Sgt. Jeff Wong testified on Wednesday that he could see that Bontkes had been shot in the face and other parts of his body. Shell casings were found around the body, as was a baggy, which Wong believes contained drugs. Bradshaw is accused of planning Bontkes’ murder, along with 33-yearold Roy Michael Thielen, who is already serving a life sentence with no chance of parole for 20 years for both murders. Crown is expected to show that the same gun was used in both murders. Crown will also claim that Langley resident Michelle Motola, 21, dropped Bradshaw and Thielen off at Hi-Knoll Park and then went to get Bontkes by convincing him to come and help her with a drug deal. Crown intends to prove that once Bontkes arrived at the park he was shot and killed just after stepping out of the van.
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