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WEDNESDAY
MAY 29, 2019 | Volume 32 No. 43
24/7 ON WEST VIC TODAY’S WEATHER
Sunny and hot High 31 C Low 16 C
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CLUCKING AND RUCKING
Reconstruction project goes around the clock
Meet Gertrude, mascot of the South Kam senior boys’ rugby team en route to provincials
BUSINESS/A17
SPORTS/A19
Was inmate’s death suicide or homicide? TIM PETRUK STAFF REPORTER tim@kamloopsthisweek.com
ALLEN DOUGLAS/KTW
LUCK IS IN THE AIR
Marie Reid of Kamloops faced Marshall Meronah of Vernon during Kamloops Open action on the weekend at the Kamloops Horseshoe Club’s facility at 1130 River St., just east of downtown. The club is always looking for new members. Interested? Call 250-577-3383.
B.C. to be summer’s ‘king of the heat’ DAVID FRIEND
CANADIAN PRESS
British Columbia is expected to be the hottest place in Canada this summer, with a heightened wildfire risk, according to the latest long range forecast from The Weather Network. Chief meteorologist Chris Scott is
forecasting another summer of hot, dry weather for most of Western Canada, raising the wildfire threat, which has already prompted evacuations in northwestern Alberta. “We expect the wildfire risk to be heightened this summer,’’ Scott said, noting that there will be an “above normal season’’ for wildfires for most of
B.C., western Alberta, the Northwest Territories and Yukon. He said B.C. — which experienced record-setting wildfire seasons in 2017 and again in 2018 — is expected to be “the king of the heat this summer.” See FORECAST, A4
Was Dylan Levi Judd murdered or did he kill himself? That’s the question a B.C. Supreme Court judge will be forced to answer in the coming weeks, at the conclusion of a murder trial that began on Monday at the Kamloops Law Courts. Judd, 20, was found dead in his cell at Kamloops Regional Correctional Centre on the morning of Nov. 10, 2014. His death was initially believed by investigators to have been the result of suicide. That changed in the years that followed and Nathaniel Jessup, now 33, was arrested last year and charged with second-degree murder in connection with Judd’s death. Jessup’s trial, in front of B.C. Supreme Court Justice Sheri Donegan, is expected to conclude at the end of next week. Prosecutors believe Jessup strangled Judd, his KRCC cellmate, in the hours after nightly lockup on Nov. 9, 2014. Jessup alerted a corrections officer the following morning that Judd had not awoken. “A guard found Mr. Judd on the bottom bunk bed, with his right foot sticking out at the bottom of a blanket,” Crown prosecutor Monica Fras said. “The blanket covered the majority of Mr. Judd’s body right up past his eyebrows. The guard removed the blanket and discovered Mr. Judd was dead and that Mr. Judd had a KRCC-issued sweater tied around his neck.” Fras pointed out Jessup had “exclusive opportunity” to kill Judd. See CROWN, A6
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