Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 7, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba A12 local Winnipeg free december 2000 Mother gets 8 years for tragedy in bar broke slashed victims neck by Mike Mclntyre Ramona redhead will have the next eight years to think about a few sense less seconds in which she stole the life of a Young a judge ruled yesterday following an emotional sentencing hear who also has a Young was Given the lengthy prison term after pleading guilty to manslaughter for the March 1999 slashing death of Colleen she bled to death on the dance floor of times Nite club after redhead Cut her Throat with a broken Beer at the she was trying to contain an argument Between redhead and another woman Over a to say this was a tragic event is an in a two Young lives were and the lives of their babies and families were changed Queens Bench jus Tice Holly Beard the who is a Mother said her heart goes out to the victims Ive thought about Colleen and her Twoy Earold son Many times Over the past few i cant imagine what you have gone she i know the worst Day in Ramona red Heads life has to be better than what is left for for she has defence lawyer Wanda Garrick requested a sentence of seven not ing her client has no prior criminal record and made a tragic she also comes from an Vio Lent background and didst have the proper skills to Cope with her she she cant change what she Shell live with that but you Are sentencing her for or perhaps a out of a 21year Gar Reck told the redhead originally broke the Beer bottle Over another woman then lunged towards Mcdonald and caught her in the Garrick said her client Doest recall striking the Young but fled the bar out of she was arrested inside a North end Gas where she locked herself in a washroom and armed herself with a she broke Down in tears As she struggled through an contradictory evidence raises doubts High court orders rape Case retrial Ken Gigotti Winnipeg free press archives Beth with a photo of her slain sister Colleen i am really sorry to the family and friends of Ive caused you great theres not a Day that goes by that i am not ashamed of myself for what i said who was supported in court by More than a dozen friends and following the the victims Mother said no punishment would fit the Brenda Mcdonald has been left to raise her who still Calls out for her Mother and Doest understand Why she Doest come she everyone will move their lives will go redheads child still has something to look Forward and she has something to look Forward she Colleen Doest have any of St Johns Yamaha music Centre Clavin ova digital piano cups from j 8 v from 37 pm dec 9 from 10 am 1 pm free workshop Clavin ova your k clips from 1330 Portage 783 8899 All need m museum 9m4000 m m m and the Winnipeg free present the Down but not out a Best Friend a family a Hobby a Home a favorite food an education Ajob a savings account a Library card when someone has Down that really the Only thing they have that you Manitoba Down syndrome society 825 Sherbrook my r3a1m1 fax 7860860 by Mike Mclntyre the provinces highest court has ordered a new trial for a Rural Manitoba Man convicted of breaking into his sex wife Home and raping her while out on bail for Burn ing Down the family the released this week by the Manitoba court of comes in the Wake of new claims from the woman adult son and sister if drastically contradict her testimony at the 55yearold who cant be named to protect the identity of his alleged was convicted in february of a vicious sexual assault which allegedly occurred in he was sentenced to three years in prison by Queens Bench associate chief Justice Jeffrey during the trial in the woman testified she was attacked shortly after returning to their farm property and moving into a since their House was she said her Hus who was out on bail on the arson charge and ordered not to have Contact with began dropping in unan she said she was terrified of and was raped one night while Lay ing in her the woman waited four years before going to the Cou Ples daughter was about to be and their son was about to and the woman told court she didst want to ruin their she said she changed her mind in 1998 after her sex husband got out of jail for the arson conviction and finished serving his Proba she said she feared for her safety once especially when the Man again began dropping at the a male Friend supported her the accused admitted he had sex with his but said it was he claimed she had repeat edly invited him to her the Case boiled Down to credibility on the Issue of Oliphant believed the alleged victim and found her former husband guilty of uttering and break and enter and sexual defence lawyer Sheldon Pinx did not handle the Case at but was asked by the accused to represent him at he began interviewing family members and unearthed fresh evidence which he believes will ultimately acquit his the couples son has sworn an affidavit supporting his fathers while living with his Mother in he claims to have witnessed her phone his father numerous times and invite him he also claims his Mother and male Friend were More than just the alleged victims sister has also come saying the woman told her in the Spring of 1994 that she had invited her former husband Over to help on the farm with chores and that they were getting along Pinx brought the new evidence before the Appeal court and asked them to overturn his clients the Crown argued the Man would have been convicted even with the new but the Appeal court said there was enough doubt to order a new a new trial Date will Likely be set in cab Driver fined for bogus injury claim a Man was ordered to pay nearly in fines and restitution yesterday for scamming Manitoba Public insurance with a bogus personal injury Thomas pleaded guilty to the in which he continued to collect disability insurance while driving a cab in Mph investigators were tipped off in january 1999 and charged Rice a few weeks by he had worked nearly five months while collecting about in 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