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IT’S A MIRAGE:
Wayne and Connie Juang inside MIRAGE, an art installation located in the Grand Court of Metropolis at Metrotown. The two-minute walkthrough is a visual, audio and digitial experience that has been custom designed for the mall, using state-of-theart projection technology and a mirrored ceiling and floor. It’s open until Sept. 5, between noon and 7 p.m. daily. Admission is free. For more on the installation visit www.tinyurl.com/ MetropolisMirage. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER
IN THE COURTS
Judge dismisses challenge in murder case
Woman accused of stabbing social worker 77 times pled not guilty, saying she was not criminally responsible gree murder in the stabbing death of Bayush Hagos back in 2011. Ejigu has pleaded not guilty on the basis that she was not criminally responsible at the time of the offence due to a mental disorder. Ejigu is accused of killing Hagos by stabbing her 77 times with a kitchen knife
By Jeremy Deutsch
jdeutsch@burnabynow.com
A woman accused of stabbing a social worker to death in her Burnaby home has had her constitutional challenge dismissed by a B.C. Supreme Court judge. Ayelech Ejigu was charged with second-de-
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garding criminal responsibility reverse the burden so the accused bears the burden of proving the defence. Ejigu’s lawyer Janet Winteringham argued that whenever the burden is reversed, it violates the presumption of innocence. “The purpose for us of bringing that application
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on Sept. 1 of that year. She then stabbed herself a number of times, inflicting several superficial wounds, court documents state. The case is still before the courts, but her lawyers applied to strike a section of the Criminal Code that deals with the insanity defence, arguing the laws re-
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was because we said it’s an extraordinarily difficult burden on an accused persons’ suffering from a mental disorder to meet the defence and that it does violate charter rights,” she told the NOW. In his decision, Justice Barry Davies declared the reverse burden was a viola-
tion of the charter in three sections. But the judge’s decision stated the violations are matters for consideration by Parliament or by the Supreme Court of Canada if it chooses to revisit these issues. Winteringham said the decision opens up the Continued on page 4