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OCTOBER 27, 2016 | Volume 29 No. 130
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Kids awoke to mom’s murder FATHER IAIN SCOTT BEING SENTENCED THIS WEEK
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While they’re delighted to see the interest, some Kamloops-Thompson board of education trustees are concerned at the size of some of the classes. In a report to trustees this week, School District 73 assistant superintendent Bill Hamblett reported no elementary classes with more than 30 students, but 28 such classes at the secondary level. Twelve of those classes are ones that often have more students than is recommended — music, band, choir, drama and physical education — while the other 16 classes teach core curriculum subjects. Trustee Meghan Wade said while she’s glad to see so much interest in the academic subjects, she will be watching to see if the classes continue to exceed the Ministry of Educationrecommended maximums. Board chair Denise Harper echoed Wade’s comments and concern. Music classes are at the top of the
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list of oversubscription. Brocklehurst middle school has one with 44 students and one with 42. Westsyde secondary has a class with 41 students. Other classes with more than 30 students include: • Brocklehurst: math honours (31), hockey academy (32), dance (34), gym (31), aquatics academy (39); • Kamloops School of the Arts: choir (36), physical education (31); • NorKam senior secondary: chemistry 12 (34), human performance (31), foundations of math (33), IB English 11 (32), IB geography 11 (32), pre-calculus 12 (34), social studies 10 (33 and 31); • Sa-Hali secondary: communications 12/English 12 (32), foundations of math and pre-calculus 10 (31); • South Kamloops secondary: biology 12 (32), chemistry 11 (31), drama 9/10 (31), human performance 11/12 (32), boys’ physical education 10 (31), physics 11 (31), sciences 10 (32), sciences humaines 10 (32). Hamblett reported other class size averages include kindergarten (20.1), grades 1 to 3 (22.2), grades 4 to 7 (27.3) and secondary grades (23.8). • MORE STUDENTS, PAGE A11
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ngila Wilson’s six-year-old son got out of bed and walked to the door of his room. He awoke to a noise — “bam bam,” as he described it — and went to investigate. He opened the door and peeked outside. “He saw dad drop mom on ‘the soft part,’ the carpet,” reads a police report read into B.C. Supreme Court yesterday. “He said, ‘Dad dropped mom on her head.’” The boy told his father, Iain Drummond Scott, that he had wet his bed. “His father tells him to go get changed,” Crown prosecutor Adrienne Murphy said. “He said, ‘Mommy is sleeping.’” Mommy was dead. Scott had stabbed
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Wilson, his estranged wife, 11 times — including twice each in the face and back — leaving a bloody mess in the 33-year-old Clearwater woman’s home. Scott took Wilson’s body and placed it on the floor in the bedroom she shared with her seven-year-old daughter, who was, by then, lying awake in bed. Murphy said the girl looked down and was puzzled. “She did not know why her mom was sleeping on the floor because she usually
sleeps with her in bed,” Murphy said. “She heard her dad talking to her mom, but was unable to make out the words. She heard her dad laughing.” Court heard Scott then rounded up his children and said they were leaving. As he ushered them out of the house, the daughter noticed the mess left behind by her mother’s violent murder. “She saw red paint all over the walls, but did not see any paint can,” Murphy said, noting Scott told his three kids it was paint.
“The conversations Mr. Scott is having with his children, he’s cogent. “When he’s asked about the blood, he says, ‘Oh, it’s paint.’” *** Wilson was killed on April 20, 2014, at some point between 9:17 p.m. and 9:29 p.m., court heard. At 9:17 p.m., she was on the phone with Scott’s sister, talking about his erratic behaviour, when the phone went dead. The last words Scott’s sister heard Wilson say during their phone conversation were: “What are you doing here? I’m going to call the police.” At 9:29 p.m., Scott was captured on surveillance video at a Clearwater liquor store buying a bottle of Fireball whisky — the same item he purchased at the same store four hours earlier. See SLAYING, A6
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