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Crown seeks jail time for ‘sextortion’ NorthVan man threatened to post explicit video on social media JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com
Crown prosecutors are asking a judge to send a North Vancouver man to jail for his actions in a “sextortion” case
eerily similar to what happened to Amanda Todd. Crown counsel Adrienne Lee said 23year-old Mark Webber should go to jail for threatening to release a
sexually explicit video of a young woman to a list of her Facebook friends unless she sent him nude photos of herself — and then carrying out the threat within two days when she didn’t comply. Webber also sent the video to a pornographic website. His actions caused severe psychological
damage to his victim, and distress to her family, Lee told the judge. “It’s an Amanda Todd situation,” Lee said outside the court. In the courtroom, Lee asked Judge Steven Merrick to send Webber to prison for nine months in order to send a strong message that such actions are criminal
and unacceptable. “It’s about sending a message to other likeminded persons that if they use social media to threaten, extort or put at risk vulnerable people, they will be dealt with severely by the courts,” she said. The sentencing hearing Tuesday was held after Webber pleaded guilty
to the unusual charge of extortion. According to the prosecutor, Webber — who did not have a relationship with the victim — found the video on a cellphone belonging to the victim’s boyfriend after that phone went missing. He then tracked down the young See Lawyer page 3
Lost hikers walk out on own BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
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Multiple rescue agencies spent the night in the North Shore backcountry looking for a pair of hikers who became lost Monday afternoon. Twelve South Korean hikers were planning to hike to the Lions on the challenging Howe Sound Crest trail Monday morning but two members hiked ahead of the pack and became separated. When the rest of the group made it back to the Cypress Bowl parking lot, they realized their compatriots were nowhere to be found and called 9-1-1. The dispatch roused four full search teams and mutual aid from North Shore Rescue, Coquitlam Search and Rescue, Ridge Meadows and Lions Bay Search & Rescue. See Hikers page 9
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