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Local drug ‘middleman’ Paliotti gets 15 months Crown says pre-sentencing report finds local man isn’t remorseful.
tencing report indicated Paliotti isn’t remorseful and “minimizes” his conduct. Paliotti’s lawyer asked for the judge icardo Paliotti was sentenced to 15-and-a-half months of jail time to consider a six- to 12-month senfor severely beating his friend Wil- tence, possibly a conditional sentence, that gave Paliotti credit for the liam Ryan Bygrove, in 2007. Bygrove later died of a brain hem- time he spent under bail conditions orrhage and his body, clad only in but Stone rejected giving credit for underwear and socks, was found time spent on bail. Marsha Bygrove, the victim’s mothdumped at Jerry Sulina Park. Paliotti was acquitted of manslaughter er, submitted a victim impact stateand convicted on the lesser charge ment to the court, which the TIMES of assault causing bodily harm. Port received a copy of. Marsha described the death of her Coquitlam provincial court judge David Stone found that Paliotti was son as “the most painful, heartbreakthe “middleman” in the grow-op and ing and torturous experience of my Bygrove was the “caretaker” in his entire life.” “I never thought it possible to live ruling. Stone also found that the more through this much pain,” she said. Ma r s h a s a i d s h e h a s likely cause of Bygrove’s nightmares. death was a kick to the head Stone said such cases by a group of men Paliotti are “always difficult for the told police were members of “I never court” because there are the UN gang. During the tritwo sets of victims — the al, evidence was presented thought it victims’ family and the that Paliotti made a phone possible to accused’s family. call after beating Bygrove live through He said the court has to and throwing him out of consider deterrence of simthe house where he lived this much ilar crimes. “There has to be and the grow-op was in. A pain.” a certain amount of general group of men then showed Marsha Bygrove deterrence for people of like up and delivered the kick minds involved in crimito Bygrove’s head when he nal enterprises, particuwas lying on the ground not larly when we have a rash moving or speaking. of these types of crimes at Crown prosecutor Mike grow-ops and the spin off Petrie argued during the offences that occur,” he sentencing hearing that said. the men who arrived were Stone said rehabilitation is also “enforcers” and their arrival wasn’t something judges have to consider “merely coincidental.” Petrie said Paliotti’s beating of and he pointed out Paliotti is young Bygrove “caused him to be in such and has “considerable support” from a vulnerable position that he was friends and family. However, Stone also noted Paliotti’s unable to do anything to protect himself from the people who came lengthy criminal record. He also pointed out a section in the pre-sentencing afterwards.” Petrie added that Paliotti’s moti- report where Paliotti said “he decided vation wasn’t intense emotion but at a certain point of time that there was an easier way of making money business. “His impulse...to beat and remove and that was respect to drug distribuMr. Bygrove from the home was, tion and grow-op enterprises.” Stone agreed with Petrie’s submissimply put, business. This wasn’t a crime of passion. It wasn’t an impul- sion that Paliotti called his boss and sive crime,” said Petrie. “Mr. Bygrove it wasn’t “coincidence” that the men wasn’t doing his business. He wasn’t showed up. Stone gave Paliotti twolistening to Mr. Paliotti and Mr. Pali- and-a-half months credit for time otti used a method of violence to Paliotti spent in jail prior to getting try and control Mr. Bygrove and...by out on bail. Paliotti will be on probainference...called in people to further tion for two years after his jail sentence, will have to provide a DNA assist in his removal.” Petrie asked for a sentence of two sample to police and is banned from years less a day. He said the pre-sen- owning weapons for 10 years.
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If and when Mike and Carolyn Holt sell “Hill House,” it will be like losing a member of their family. The Maple Ridge couple is putting the heritage home on the selling block. For Mike and Carolyn, it’s a tough decision, but a necessary one. “I cried when we bought the house...and I cried when we were signing the papers to sell it,” Carolyn said, of the home located on 240th Street, just a step or two north of Lougheed Highway. “I really don’t want to, but we need to slow down, because both of our bodies are dead now. We can’t do the upkeep anymore.” When the house eventually changes owners, the Holts will continue to hold a vested interest in it, and the property it sits on. “We spent a lot of energy and a lot of time making sure it was put back to as close to the original as we could,” Mike said. “I’m afraid of someone painting the woodwork,” Carolyn said. “I wish one of our children was in a position to take it over.” The Holts are just the fourth family to ever live in “Hill House” in its colourful 98-year history, and stepping through the home’s front doors is like going back a century in time.
Antique furniture can be found in almost every room. “We like old furniture,” Mike said. “We’ve always had antiques in our lives.” The four-storey Edwardian-style house was built in 1912 for Hendrick Hill with money he had earned dur-
ing the Klondike Gold Rush. Hill was Finnish and he turned to a fellow Finn, Victor Rossi, a builder from Webster’s Corners, to construct the house. The 4,000-square foot house has maintained many of its original design features such as hardwood floors and paneling, bay windows, stained glass, and built-in glass fronted cabinets. Members of the Hill family inhabited the building until 1972. In its original location, the home was part
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of a working farm which included a dairy herd, chickens, and pigs. From 1952 to 1956, a portion of the home was converted into a restaurant. It was the first restaurant with a liquor license on the north side of the Fraser River. Later, the Hill family sold the home to Dr. Arthur Jones, whose family lived in it for 23 years. In the mid-1990s, the “Hill House” property was sold to developers and the home stood vacant for a number of years. In 1999, the house was moved from its original location to a site on 240th Street, on the southwest corner of the original property. “We’d been watching [the home] for 20 years,” Mike recalled. “We always wanted to pick it up. One day we came by and it was boarded up, sitting up on the hill. So we went through the process of getting hold of the developer... and chased him down for a couple of years.” The Holts were on a list of 12 potential buyers, and when the couple took a tour inside the boarded up house, they did so in the dark, with flashlights.
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