Surrey North Delta Leader, October 02, 2015

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HOUSING PLEDGES TARGET OWNERS, RENTERS JEFF NAGEL

As home prices spiral up beyond the reach of many Lower Mainland residents, the federal parties are staking out different approaches on how they would deal with the housing affordability problem if elected. Urban mayors have tried to make the issue a priority, arguing workers are being priced out of their cities, forcing many to commute farther – clogging roads and transit – and impairing future economic growth and livability.

▶ THEIR FINEST HOUR More than 1,000 regional Royal Canadian Air Cadets took part in ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain at the Boundary Bay Airport on Sept. 20. Fly-overs at the event included two RCAF CF-18 fighter jets. BOAZ JOSEPH

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GUILTY OF MURDERING HER MOM ▶ SURREY’S GLORIA ZERBINOS STABBED HER MOTHER ‘AT LEAST’ 24 TIMES SHEILA REYNOLDS

Surrey’s Panagiota (Yota) Zerbinos (left) and her daughter Gloria Zerbinos. FILE

A B.C. Supreme Court justice has found a 30-year-old Surrey woman guilty of the second-degree murder of her mother, calling the 2012 stabbing a “violent and vicious” intentional killing. Gloria Zerbinos was convicted in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster on

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Tuesday morning. Her mom, 43-year-old Pangiota (“Yota”) Zerbinos, was found dead in Gloria’s basement suite near 88 Avenue and 148A Street on Nov. 8 2012, a knife still protruding from her chest. Gloria was arrested and charged two days later at a Vancouver strip club. Family members and friends of Yota cried as Justice Frits Verhoeven described the gruesome and brutal details of her murder, while Gloria, wearing green prison garb with her dark curly hair now shoulder length, stared intently, without emotion, as he read his judgement. He said Yota was stabbed “at least” 24

times, with wounds found all over body, including her scalp, hands, arms, legs, chest and back. During the trial, the court heard that Gloria admitted to police investigators that she’d stabbed her mom, but denied the killing was planned and deliberate. “We started arguing… I did confront her… it went sour and it went bad,” she said. But while the defence argued her admissions weren’t reliable, Verhoeven disagreed, saying even without the confession, the circumstantial facts were “overwhelming.” continued on page 4

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