Langley Times, October 16, 2012

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Dunkin’ for Dollars Fort Langley Elementary and Langley Fine Arts will get to split $1,000, thanks to the efforts of RE/MAX Little Oak Realty at the Cranberry Festival on Oct. 6. In exchange for donations, visitors to the festival were able to try their hand at dunking RE/MAX realtors and volunteers from Fort Langley Cyclery, Republica Coffee Roasters, Cherry Bomb Salon, My North Langley and Langley Fine Arts School in the dunk tank. Michael Thorne, pictured at left, is one of many who took a turn getting dunked. Chuck MAGNUS/ submitted photo

Jury shown re-enactment of murders Hours-long video played at Robert Bradshaw’s trial for double homicide after convicted killer refuses to testify Monique TaMMinga Times Reporter

A B.C. Supreme Court jury watched a police video of double murderer Roy Thielen re-enacting how he and accused murderer Robert Bradshaw carried out the killings of Laura Lamoureux and Marc Bontkes in March 2009. After Thielen, 33, was arrested in July 2010, he offered to take police through how the murders happened and who was involved, speaking matter-of-factly, as he went to the scenes and recreated the killings. The jury watched as he re-enacted how he unloaded bullets into his ex-girlfriend Lamoureux on March 14, 2009.

The video was being played at Bradshaw’s trial. He faces two counts of firstdegree murder in the killings of Lamoureux and Bontkes. Thielen is already serving a life sentence for the crimes. His “adopted” sister Michelle Motola, 21, is serving a six-year sentence for her part in the killing of Bontkes. Judge Bruce Greyell allowed the jury to watch the hours of video, but instructed them that Thielen’s accounts of those murders is hearsay and that he is “not only an unsavoury character but described as an enforcer who already pleaded guilty to these murders.” Greyell also said videos like this are not usually permitted because the accused can’t be cross-examined about his evi-

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dence, which could reveal lies and inconsistencies. Thielen has been cited for contempt after refusing to testify against his coaccused last week. He could face more time for contempt but is already serving life without the chance of parole for 20 years. Thielen told police in the video that he offered, against his lawyer’s wishes, to give them everything because it’s the “right thing to do . . . because it is what his family and their families would want. “I get what I deserve. It was all for greed and personal gain,” he said. “Everyone involved, if they aren’t taken down it will happen again.” Thielen alleges that on March 14, 2009, he was driving around doing drug deals

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with Bradshaw, who was working for a competing dial-a-dope operation in Langley. Bradshaw was called by Lamoureux for some drugs. Because Lamoureux and Thielen had “a beef,” the double murderer was dropped off at a park while Bradshaw — known as Paulie — took her drugs. Thielen alleges that he was dropped off at the corner of 202A Street and 50 Avenue with his loaded .45 gun. He showed how he crouched down in some bushes as he heard her boots on the pavement in the early morning hours. He shot her numerous times before getting back into Bradshaw’s car. continued, PAGE 4

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