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Witness banned at Surrey Six trial Mom of victim says she has to trust judge’s decision to disallow killer’s testimony by Sheila Reynolds
A FORMER gang member and key witness at the Surrey Six trial has been banned from testifying. The man, who can only be identified as Person X due to a publication ban, pleaded guilty in April 2009 to three counts of second-degree murder in connection to the case, in which six men were shot to death in a North Surrey apartment. Person X, who is serving a life sentence, was expected to provide revealing testimony at the trial of Cody Haevischer and Matthew Johnston, who are both on trial in Vancouver in connection with the Oct. 19, 2007 murders of Christopher Mohan, Edward Schellenberg, Edward Narong, Ryan Bartolomeo, and brothers Eileen Mohan Chris and Michael Lal. Person X’s testimony was actually prohibited by B.C. Supreme Court Madam Justice Catherine Wedge in August after an in-camera hearing that took place in May, June and early August.
“I’m leaving a crucial decision like this in (the judge’s) hands. In the end, we’ll find out if it was the right decision.”
See SURREY SIX / Page 4
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Eileen Mohan’s son Chris Mohan was an innocent bystander killed in the Surrey Six murders.
Guilting out gangsters Police roll out posters and videos of grieving kids by Jeff Nagel IN A new bid to shatter B.C.’s gang culture, police
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Police are appealing to gang members’ softer side in a new video and poster campaign.
are now targeting what they think is the soft underbelly of hardened gangsters – their guilt at the anguish they may cause loved ones if they die. Posters, videos and radio messages released Wednesday depict grieving children at the graves of gunned-down gangsters, including a tiny blond girl leaving behind a card that says, “I miss you Daddy.”
It ends with the tag line “Wouldn’t you rather she look up to you?” One video shows a girl sitting on a swing above the covered corpse of her gangster father. The campaign dubbed End Gang Life, complete with a website at www.endganglife.ca, is the latest brainchild of Sgt. Lindsey Houghton of the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of B.C. (CFSEU). See CRIME / Page 3
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