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Coleton Nelson’s memory kept alive two years later
Murderer continues to victimize from jail
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A large throng of supporters turned out at Aldergrove Arena Monday evening with candles and balloons to help the Nelson family remember 12-year-old Coleton, who was killed in a vehicle collision two years ago. The Nelson family, parents Coleton Brenda Nelson and Wayne, and sisters Chrystie and Alecsa, lost their son and brother, Coleton, on Feb. 18, 2011, in a crash at Robertson Crescent and 256 Street. Coleton was a passenger in the car, which was broadsided by a garbage truck, and he was pronounced dead at the scene. Coleton was a popular local student and player #10 for his Aldergrove Minor Hockey team. The community has kept his memory alive with memorial services at the Aldergrove
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Vic Bentley (left) and David McIntosh test a Second World War-era Tiger Moth for fuel leaks at the Museum of Flight in Langley on Tuesday (Feb. 19). Tuesdays are volunteer days at the museum, which is raising money to build a hangar at the Langley airport to accommodate its growing collection of classic aircraft. A dinner and auction is planned for Saturday, March 16 at the museum. Tickets are $85. Call 604-532-0035 or 604-230-1560.
For Holly Chamberlain, the nightmare of losing her brother and sister-in-law in a gruesome double murder in Langley in 2001 was bad enough. The grief and the way her brother, John Cleaveland Heasman, 37, and Linda Lee Anderson, 39, were killed left her traumatized beyond belief. Twelve years later, the man who killed them continues to victimize her family. Since William James McCotter entered the justice system he has manipulated it, grabbing headlines across the country for his ability to delay his trial for five years by firing every lawyer legal aid has given him and launching every appeal possible. An appeal he made to overturn his sentences was dismissed last February. Now he is appealing when he should be eligible for parole. It was set at 20 years when he was sentenced in 2007. “When is enough, enough?” asked Chamberlain from her home on Vancouver Island. “It is beyond belief that he can drag our families through all of this over and over again. He has all the rights and we have none,” she said. Chamberlain said every time McCotter files an appeal, she is notified and she has to tell her brother’s children and her family and the hurt comes to the surface again. The same goes for Anderson’s family. Since being arrested near the beaten and bloodied bodies of his victims, McCotter has played the system, she said. First, it took far too long for the case to go to trial, hampered by the accused continually firing lawyers to delay the case.
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