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Inquest begins for former coroner Man accused of improperly examining two murder victims
Sheila ReynoldS Black Press
The Crown’s case against a former coroner from Chilliwack accused of improperly examining two female murder victims in Coquitlam and Langley is being laid out in court this week. A preliminary inquiry into charges against Kenneth Glen Mattinson opened Thursday morning in Surrey Provincial Court. The actual trial will come later, if a judge determines there is sufficient evidence to proceed. Evidence given during the preliminary inquiry is subject to a publication ban and cannot be reported. Mattinson, 63, was charged Kenneth Glen in October 2010 with two Mattinson counts each of interference with a dead body and breach of trust by a public officer. At the time of his arrest, the RCMP said a forensic identification officer at a crime scene in Langley “noticed what appeared to be a pattern of questionable and possibly criminal behaviour in the manipulation of bodies.” The investigation, police said, involved examinations at crime scenes after two separate murders: the shooting of 21-yearold Brianna Helen Kinnear in Coquitlam in February 2009 and the Langley shooting a month later of 36-year-old Laura Lynne Lamoureux. Police said Mattinson retired from the B.C. Coroners Service shortly after the investigation was launched. Mattinson, a tall, balding man with a short beard and glasses, listened and occasionally spoke to his lawyer as evidence was given in court Thursday morning. Two friends of one of the victims also attended court, one of them leaving in tears at one point. Mattinson’s preliminary inquiry was scheduled for two days. — with files from Sarah Payne and Robert Freeman
Miranda GATHERCOLE/Langley Times
Brayden Aspinall, 3, stands among thousands of poinsettias being grown at the Darvonda Nurseries on 216 Street near Glover Road. Darvonda has the tallest greenhouses in North America and will harvest 150,000 poinsettias to be sold at Costco locations from B.C. all the way to New Brunswick. The nursery is offering tours of their facilities at 1 p.m. on Saturdays. Meet at the front entrance of the Milner Gardens shop across the parking lot.
ALC limits Trinity expansion Commission concludes most of disputed land is suitable for farming nataSha JoneS Times Reporter
The Agricultural Land Commission will not allow further expansion of Trinity Western University’s university district, beyond those lands which it
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excluded from the ALR several years ago. These approved lands lie on the west side of Glover Road, opposite the campus. The ALC concluded that “most of the land proposed for non-farm designation
has agricultural capability and is appropriately designated as ALR.” The lands which the ALC has not approved for a university district of retail/commercial and educational facilities, lie adjacent to Highway 1, west of the Glover Road overpass. In an Oct. 16 letter to the Township, the ALC concluded further that:
• Most of the land proposed for non-farm designation is suitable for agricultural use; • The proposed re-designation will adversely impact agriculture, and • Except where the commission has allowed exclusion or non-farm use through the application continued, PAGE 6
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