Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 30, 2004, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press wednesday june 30, 2004 Canada / world a7 insemination a $435,000 mistake Wilmington . ? a jury has pregnancy. A nurse practitioner inset awarded More than $400,000 us to a Ina Ted her with the contents of an Unla alderwoman abduction woman who was accidentally i Semi belled syringe. The syringe contained rated with unprepared sperm during a unprepared sperm left Over from Aneth tale fabricated judge Heatherington pronounced guilty of Public mischief by Judy Monchuk l Lethbridge Alta. ? Alder woman Dar Heatherington clenched her Teeth and glared As she left a courtroom yesterday her credibility in tatters after a judge ruled she had fabricated a stalker and written lurid letters to herself. At her Side with a protective Arm around her shoulders was her Hus band Dave ? the Man Heatherington a lawyer had suggested could have been responsible for the letters and obscene phone Calls to her office and Home beginning in october 2002. Earlier yesterday Heatherington sat ramrod straight while provincial court judge Peter Caffaro pronounced her guilty of Public mischief in a Case that crossed Borders and made International headlines. She stared ahead and dabbed at her eyes with a tissue her sniffles audible throughout the packed courtroom. I found that mrs. Heatherington was not to be trusted to Tell the truth Caffaro said of a videotaped interview the alderwoman had with Lethbridge police in april 2003 after i found months of sur that mrs. Veil Lance failed to turn up any Heatherington thing. Was not to be the 41-year?old Mother of trusted to Tell three is to be the truth sentenced sept. 10. The judge ? judge Pete agreed to the Caffaro crowns request for psychiatric assessments before that. The maximum sentence is five years in prison. Heatherington was charged last year after she vanished in great Falls mont., while on Council business Only to reappear Days later in Las vegas saying she had been abducted and sexually assaulted. She recanted the Story to Montana police but the Case kept her Home City of Lethbridge under a Media Glare for months. Lethbridge mayor Bob Tarlecky said he believes the conviction renders Heatherington ineligible to hold Public office and appealed to her to step Down voluntarily. I think the judges comments and his order that she receive psychiatric assessment indicates he sees that As a step in. Putting her life Back together said Tarlecky. That a where the emphasis needs to be Healing on City Council Healing for the Community and Healing for Dar if she does to resign Council could ask a court of Queens Bench judge to remove her from office. But with municipal elections slated for octo Ber it May not be Worth the Legal expense. The judge also dismissed As highly speculative a defence suggestion that Heatherington a husband was to blame noting that any indirect evidence. Would Lead this court to believe he loves his wife and would never do any thing to harm or frighten Dave Heatherington arrived at court holding hands with his wife and listened with furrowed brow to the judges decision. The couple brushed past reporters afterwards and refused comment. ? Canadian press should Soldier face charges court martial to look at somalis death Gatineau que. ? a military court martial inquiry will meet in september to determine whether a former Canad an Soldier should face charges in the death of a somali youth More than a decade ago. Lawyers decided yesterday that Clay ton matches will appear at a hearing on sept. 21 at hocs Unicorn a land based ship in Saskatchewan. Matches was charged in the 1993 death of 16-year-old Scidane Arone but was declared unfit to stand trial the Fol lowing year because of brain damage suffered in a suicide attempt after he was arrested. Every two years prosecutors have to prove they still have evidence to main Tain second degree murder charges in Case the former paratrooper recovers. Arones torture and murder tarnished Canadas reputation As a military peace keeper and led to the disbanding of matches outfit the Canadian airborne regiment. Prosecutor maj. Bruce Macgregor has said the military will continue to maintain the charges against matches As Long As there is evidence and it is in the Public interest. In the past prosecutors relied on Evi Dence from Kyle Brown a former Pri vate in the airborne regiment who was convicted of manslaughter and torture in Arones death and sentenced to five years. Matches family had pleaded at a 2002 hearing to let the charges drop after Doc tors said there is no Hope for his recovery. The gaunt greying former Soldier attended the 2002 hearing looking like a Shadow of the Tough looking paratrooper in an infamous photo of the torture session. ? Canadian press visit to a Fertility clinic. The jury monday returned a verdict of $85,000 in compensatory damages and $350,000 in punitive damages to Kelly Chambliss. Chambliss 37, walked into the clinic in August 2002 for her 12th attempt at or clients procedure two Days before. Two Days after the procedure Cham Bliss said clinic officials told her that she had been injected with unwashed sperm which had proteins that caused her uterus to contract. ? associated press ;