Penticton Western News, April 22, 2015

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sports A couple of Vees veterans step up during BCHL championship

NEWS PENTICTON WESTERN

FRED PAGE CUP WINNERS — The Penticton Vees are the B.C. Hockey League champions for 2014-15 after beating the Nanaimo Clippers last weekend and now advance to the Western Canada Cup tournament in Fort McMurray, Alta. The tournament runs April 25 to May 3. For more on the Vees see Page 17.

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FAMILY DESTROYED BY LOSS OF SON Dale Boyd

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Tensions peaked in a Penticton courtroom Tuesday as the family of 18-year-old Marco Corbin faced the man who killed him after a boating collision nearly four years ago on Osoyoos Lake. The family yelled from the courtroom gallery as Ryan William Symington, 30, attempted to apologize, speaking for the first time towards the end of the hearing. “Sorry to the family,” Symington said, as members of the Corbin family interjected before he could say more.

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The apology was too little and too late for the Corbin family members in the gallery, who showed their non-acceptance of the apology verbally. “It’s coming back to you. You’re a (expletive) murderer,” Corbin’s Ryan Symington brother said before he and other family members were escorted out of the courtroom by the sheriff and the hearing was stood down briefly. Symington was sentenced to 27 months in

jail and a five driving prohibition through a joint submission from the Crown and the defence. Symington pleaded guilty to one count of dangerous driving causing death and one count of failure to stop at an accident causing bodily harm. The Mission, B.C. teen was vacationing in the Okanagan on Aug. 16, 2011 when the incident took place. Marco was being towed behind a boat on a tube when he was struck by another boat. He was rushed back to shore where paramedics and bystanders tried in vain to revive him. Criminal charges were not laid on Symington until three years after the fact. Court docu-

ments obtained by the Western News in 2012 suggested alcohol, a lack of proper navigation lights and non-compliance with boating regulations on the part of both operators may have been factors in the crash. The documents, filed by RCMP with their applications to obtain search warrants, include an information to obtain. This is a sworn statement by a police officer which spells out the grounds on which a warrant should be granted by the court. Witness statements given to police and included in the ITO are not sworn and therefore not considered as reliable as court testimony. See CORBIN on PG.3

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