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Son identified
in murder trial

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. (CP) — The father of a
Chilliwack, B.C., man charged with murdering his mother
for financial gain coolly identified his accused son Tuesday in
B.C. Supreme Court.

He's the gentleman in the blue sweater, said Raymond
Kowbel, glancing dispassionately at the three young men
accused of killing his 42-year-old wife, Norma, 14 months
ago.

Sitting close together in the cramped prisoners’ box
were Richard Kowbel, 23, Gary Dewhirst, 24, and Michael
Leduc, 24, who have pleaded not guilty to first-degree
murder,

The Crown contends Kowbel was hoping for a large
inheritance when he and the co-accused launched a
murderous attack on his parents and sister as they slept at
the family home in Sardis, about 100 kilometres east of
Vancouver.

The father and daughter, although bludgeoned with a
baseball bat, managed to escape. The body of the mother,
battered with a tire iron, was found after firemen
extinguished a blaze set in the house by the fleeing killers.

Linda . a psychiatric nurse at the Regional
Psychiatric Centre, recounted a conversation in which
Kowbel gave her a graphic account of the attack he and his
co-accused made on his family.

WENT FIRST

She said Kowbel told her all three men approached the
house in the early hours of Jan. 25, 1987. Kowbel said he
went in first to secure the family dog, and then let the other
two in

Snow said Kowbel recalled how they went upstairs to
the master bedroom, where he stood with a baseball bat
beside his sleeping father and Leduc, holding a tire iron,
stood over the mother.

Asked what Kowbel said about their intentions, Snow

said: “They were to kill everyone in the house, then set the
house on fire to make it look like \robbery and arson.”

She said Kowbel told her the plan was that each one of
the three was to kill someone, but one of them “chickened
out at the, last minute” and just stood guard.

Snow said Kowbel, describing the beatings, likened the
sound of the baseball bat hitting his father to the sound of a
ripe melon hitting the floor.

She said he told her there was blood all over the place,
all over the walls, all over the ceiling and all over him,

“He said he could hear his father screaming and he
could hear the other man hitting his mother with the tire
iron,” Snow testified. “He said he could hear gurgling in the
back of her throat.”

Recalling how Kowbel told her he.could hear his'gtxter
screaming in the next bedroom, Snow said the accused told
of going into the other room and hitting his sister with the
bat until it broke in two,

Asked if Kowbel showed any remorse as he spoke of the
attack, Snow said the only remorse he had was over the fact
that they were all supposed to have died and it hadn't
worked out.

The senior Kowbel recalled what happened when the
intruder starting battering him over the head.

“This is for all the things you did to me, Raymond
Kowbel said he heard his assailant say as the bat came
crashing down on his head

“Were you able to recognize the voice?” asked
prosecutor Jack Gibson.

“The voice was Richard Kowbel,” said the witness,
identifying his son.

Kowbel testified the beating left him with 10 head
lacerations requiring 100 stitches, two broken agms, cuts to
his chest and severe bruising to the entire upper part of his
body .

Nanaimo man found

VANCOUVER CP) came forward to say they
Devon Lay came home to a remembered seeing him

hiked to Los Angeles. can produce amnesia in acute
After five days on the road cases.

confused but relieved family
Tuesday night after wander
ing away from his Nanaimo
home March 6.

Lay, 23, flew back to Van
couver from a Los Angeles
hospital, where he had spent
five days after disappearing
from the Vancouver Island

aboard on the day he dis
appeared.

“We still don't know the
nitty-gritty of what hap.
pened,” said his mother-in.
law Paige Lawson. “He's ob-
viously got medical prob.
lems. The main think is he's
all right — that's the bottom

community line.”

An intensive search turned Lay said he had boarded a
up no trace of him untila few ferry from Nanaimo to
days ago, when passengers Horseshoe Bay with only $10
on a bound ferry in his pocket, then hitch

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Condition féminine

with almost nothing to eat
and no place to sleep, he
booked into a hospital in Tor-
rance, just south of Los
Angeles, where doctors at
first had no idea who he was.

Lay yesterday said he can’t
recall “all the bits and pieces”
of how he got to Los Angels

or why it took four days
before doctors called his
family

His family said he may be
suffering from hypoglycemia,
a blood-sugar deficiency that

Lay said he had been worn
out and ill with the flu after
moving his wife and 11
month-old baby to Nanaimo
three weeks ago to start a
house-building business.

He said he wandered off in
a dazed state, but denied that
he experienced amnesia. His
father, Mervin, flew to Los
Angeles to retrieve his son
after a doctor at Harbor
UCLA Medical Centre in
Torrance called the family on
Monday

Sandman thief
sentenced

VANCOUVER CP) A
former executive of the Sand
man Inns was_ sentenced
Tuesday to jail for two years
less a day for stealing $80,000
from the hotel chain.

George Hayes, 41, re
moved the money from the
company in 1985 through the
use of five cheques issued to
the company's law firm. The
law firm was also acting for
Hayes in purchasing prop.
erty and a house in Sechelt,
B.C., for the same amount.

County court judge Mary
Ellen Boyd said Hayes’ ex-
planation that the money was
a bonus owed to him “lacked
any degree of common
sense.”

Boyd ordered Hayes to re
turn the house and property
in Sechelt to the Sandman
{nns.

The owner of the hotel
chain, Bob Gaglardi, has said
Hayes’ theft contributed to
the financial problems facing
the company.

Ferry

PRINCE RUPERT, B.C.
CP) — Three crew mem.
bers aboard a B.C. Ferry
Corp. vessel didn't expect
to have to use their in-
dustrial first aid training to
deliver a baby.

But Candice Marina
Gladstone decided to make
her appearance a weék
early, soon after her
mother Delores and father
Ernie started the 10-hour
ferry trip from the coastal
town of Bella Bella to their
home in Prince Rupert.

Delores Gladstone went
into labor about an hour
into the voyage on the

crew

delivers baby

Queen of Prince Rupert
last Sunday. The ferry has
no doctor or nurse abeard
but crewmembers Ralph
Bowen and Lynda Prosser
were the ship's first aid
attendants.

Along with colleague
Janice Lloyd, they saw
Gladstone through the de-
livery, using twine to tie
off the baby's umbilical
cord and borrowing a pas-
senger’s camera cleaning
brush to clean out the nose
and mouth of the eight-
pound, eight-ounce baby.

“It was a natural, easy
birth, no complications.”

Mother

defends

child abuser

KAMLOOPS, B.C. CP) —
The mother of a boy who was
sexually assaulted by his
adult babysitter says she has
forgotten the acts and thinks
the offender needs help.

The mother told provincial
court Judge Bill Blair during
the second day of a sen
tencing hearing that after
some rage and confusion she
forgave Derek Clarke for
assaulting her son, now 13.

Clarke, 51, pleaded guilty
Monday to 11 counts of bug:
gery and six counts of in-
decent assault on 17 different
boys including the woman's
son. The incidents involved
boys aged nine to 14 over a
23-year period in Lytton,
B.C., where Clarke worked
as a dormitory supervisor at
St. George's school, and at a
Vancouver mission.

“I've been through an aw-
ful lot with this and yet I still
feel that basically he is a good
person and my son has bene-
fitted from his relationship
with him,” said the woman,
who cannot be named be.
cause it would reveal her
son't identity.

“I'm fully aware of what
has taken place. I still
support him,” said the
mother, called as a defence
witness. “He has a sickness
that has to be dealt with.”

The woman said she met
Clarke eight years ago at
Central City Mission in Van
couver, where he worked
after being fired from the
residential school in 1974.
The woman, a single parent,
said since she and Clarke
worked different shifts, they
took turns babysitting both
her son and another boy.

Another woman, Patrician
Fortin, testified Clarke was
her neighbor in Vancouver
for 10 years and never
assaulted her two sons, now
11 and 15. Neither were
named as victims of Clarke.

“I love him. He's always

appointments.

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been there,” said Fortin.
“He's been a part of our life
for the last 10 years.”

Judge Bi ordered a
30-day psychiatric remand
for Clarke, adjourned the
hearing until April 15, and
tentatively set an April 18
date for sentencing.

During the hearing Mon-
day, two of Clarke’s victims
said their lives became al
most intolerable after Clarke
sexually abused them as
young students at the school
in Lytton, 150 kilometres
northwest of Vancouver.

The two, now adults, des:
cribed their problems with
drug and alcohol abuse and
their urges to commit sui
cide.

“I had my 30-30 gun look
ing right at me,” said one
victim, now 31. “I'm glad I
didn't complete it. I was
broken in all areas of my
life.”

The man, who can't be
named, said he is just getting
back on track with his life
after more than 20 years of
nightmares brought on by
Clarke, who sexually abused
him for about two years
when he was nine and 10.

Another victim, now 27,
said Clarke had him scrub the
dormitory floor with a tooth.
brush after he refused to
have sex with him.

Teacher
charged

PENTICTON, B.C. AP) —
A Penticton school teachers
has been charged with hav.
ing sexual intercourse with a
female under age 16, but over
the age of 14, over actions
alleged to have occurred five
years ago.

Joachim Hofmann, 38,
taught English at MeNicoll
Park Junior secondary school
for 12 years before being dis.
missed on March 10, said
school board chairman Rory
Mclvor.

The alleged offence is said
to have occurred between
June, 1983 and October,
1983. The name of the alleged
victim cannot be published.

Crown prosecutor Hugh
McSheffrey said no court
date has been set for Hof-
mann.

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