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JANUARY 10, 2018 | Volume 31 No. 3
MALL MATH
MAKING A BIG DEAL
Add Sephora, subtract Le Château
Kamloops Blazers look to future with Everett trade
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Teichrieb trial will be held in Kelowna
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DAVE EAGLES/KTW The former Brass Kettle restaurant was destroyed by fire last Friday. The building at the corner of Pacific Way and Hugh Allan Drive in Aberdeen had been empty for more than a decade. Investigators believe the blaze was human-caused.
Fire site sold by Gaglardi in November NEW OWNER PLANS CAR WASH, STORAGE UNITS FOR PROPERTY a newly formed numbered company less than two months ago. The building, which formerly housed the Brass Kettle and Juniper’s restaurants at the corner of Pacific Way and Hugh Allan Drive in Aberdeen, was destroyed in a large fire described by investigators as human-caused.
TIM PETRUK
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The property on which an abandoned Kamloops restaurant burned to the ground last Friday was sold by Kamloops Blazers’ majority owner Tom Gaglardi to
Property records show the Brass Kettle property was sold by Gaglardi’s Northland Properties on Nov. 18 to Vancouver-based 1139653 B.C., which incorporated less than three weeks before the purchase. See BURNED BUILDING, A4
The trial of a man accused of beating a teen into a coma after finding him on his property in 2016 will not take place in Kamloops. A B.C. Supreme Court judge on Monday granted an application from Kristopher Teichrieb’s defence lawyer to have his trial moved to Kelowna. Teichrieb, 41, has been in custody since the early-morning hours of June 19, 2016, when he is alleged to have assaulted Jessie Simpson, who was then 18. Simpson, who is now 20 and remains in hospital, was assaulted at Holt Street and Clifford Avenue in Brocklehurst, not far from Teichrieb’s home. Simpson’s friends and family have said the teen was celebrating high school graduation the night before the attack and may have been searching for a group of friends when he was attacked. “Due to the extensive publicity in this case, Mr. Teichrieb would not get a fair trial in this location,” defence lawyer Jordan Watt said, pointing to dozens of news stories detailing the allegations against his client and the
injuries to Simpson. “They draw not only sympathy, but also empathy towards the victim.” Watt also mentioned comments posted online in response to news stories depicting “much animosity” toward Teichrieb, as well as a May 2017 story in KTW that mentioned the possibility of a guilty plea after lawyers on both sides asked for more time to talk. “We have discussed Kelowna as a place where all of the witnesses could easily get to from here,” Watt said. The Crown, two prosecutors from the Lower Mainland, did not oppose the change-of-venue application. B.C. Supreme Court Justice Joel Groves ordered the file be transferred to Kelowna and gave lawyers six weeks to begin looking for a trial date. After spending months in a coma, Simpson began to wake up following brain surgery in early 2017. Since then, his health has fluctuated and he has been transferred from his room at Royal Inland Hospital to the facility’s intensive-care unit multiple times. In June, a judge declared Simpson legally infirm, appointing his mother to act on his behalf.
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