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Cold Hands, Warm Hearts An excited Sydney Erickson, 4, of Langley, meets Frozen’s Queen Elsa (centre) and Princess Anna at the sixthannual White Rock Princess Party, a White Rock Firefighters Charities Association fundraiser at Star of the Sea Hall on Aug. 22. For more information, visit www. wrprincessparty. com B OA Z J OS E P H B lack Pre s s
Beating victim didn’t defend self, says witness COURT HEARS CHRIS LAFRENIER WAS PUNCHED AND KICKED BY PAIR OF ATTACKERS IN 2014 M O N I Q U E TA M M I N G A Tim e s Re po r t e r
“I thought he was dead,” said a Langley City woman who witnessed a 39-year-old man being badly beaten in November 2014. The woman, Ms. Horvac, took the stand in the trial of Matthew Samms, 19, who is charged with robbery and assault in connection to a beating near the Langley bus loop that seriously injured a Fernridge man on his way home from work.
Samms has pleaded not guilty and his trial began in Surrey Provincial Court on Wednesday. A 15-year-old also charged in this case pleaded guilty to assault and robbery in February and was sentenced in March. His name was not released because he is classified as a young offender. It was Saturday, Nov. 29, 2014, when Chris Lafrenier, then 39, had finished work and was supposed to be catching another
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bus at around midnight to his Fernridge home. He was waiting at the Logan Avenue bus exchange, when it is alleged two teens got into an altercation with him. Police responded to several 911 calls and located Lafrenier just south of the 7-Eleven store on 203 Street. He was face down in a pool of his own blood, not moving. It was later learned that the assault had left him with a bro-
ken nose and a chipped tooth. He needed stitches to close wounds on his head and had suffered a brain injury. A description of the suspects was given to police and the two accused teens were arrested a short time later. Statements of fact in the trial indicate that forensics identified the victim’s blood on Samms shoes and jeans.
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