Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 10, 2006, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press thursday August 10, 2006 Canada a7 6 murder charges go to trial judge tries to ease Burden of serial killings Case by Terri Theodore and Jeremy Hainsworth v Vancouver ? accused serial killer Robert Pickton wont stand trial on 26 murder counts All at the same time but its not Clear yet which killings hell be tried on first. Family members of some of the women Pickton is accused of killing reacted with angry dismay at the suggestion some of the murder charges could be put on hold. Lillian Beaudoin said she want even aware there was a move to separate some of the charges in the Case and instead found out from a reporter yesterday. She wondered when her family might get Justice for the killing of her sister Diane Rock. How much longer do we have to wait she asked in disbelief. She was the third charge against him. My mothers going to be really upset. This is not Good news. I Don to know what to say i really Don to. I a quite Justice James Williams released a ruling yesterday saying the original Case against Pickton posed an unreasonable Burden on a jury because the trial would go on for too Long and involve too much evidence. The defence had estimated that trying Pickton on the 26 counts would take about two years. I am satisfied that the interests of Justice require Severance of counts from the present indictment Williams wrote. Williams concluded six of the 26 charges should be separated out of the original indictment. One trial will proceed on those six counts the balance will be tried separately he wrote. But Geoffrey Gaul a spokesman for the Crown said his office will have to consider its next move. Which should go first should we go to trial with those six counts or should we look at the other 20 and should we proceed on those 20 or should we proceed on a number of those 20? Canadian press archives Robert William Pickton lengthy trial those Are discretionary Calls that the prosecution will Gaul made it Clear Pickton still faces 26 counts of first degree murder. When and How he faces those counts Are the Only decisions to be made. Gaul said testimony in the Case will begin in january As planned. Defence lawyer Adrian Brooks agreed the Crown has the prerogative to decide How to proceed now. But he noted that going ahead with anything other than the six counts the judge singled out would Lead to the same problem the judge was trying to avoid ? an Over burdened jury. In june Pickton elected to be tried by a jury though he had the option of a trial presided by a judge alone. Brooks said the judges decision wednesday Means the Case could finish in a year rather than two. We still have to sift through the same amount of material even if it is to go to trial on a fewer number of charges he said. Its not As if the totality of the evidence is somehow attorney general Wally Oppal was also pleased at the judges decision because one of our nightmares would be to try and find members of the Public who would serve As jurors if we were proceeding with All of the counts of the but Oppal added that the other charges Haven to been dismissed. They re still very much alive he said. Dave Pickton the accused a brother was on a Bike Holiday in the United states and refused to com ment on the ruling. ? Canadian press medication linked to death Man says London ont. ? a Toronto Man who killed his epileptic son in a London hotel room in july 2004 has broken a two year silence in Hopes he can help families afflicted by mental illness avoid similar tragedies. David Carmichael told the London free press from the Brockville psychiatric hos Pital that he is haunted by memories of the night he killed his 11-year-old son Ian. I would to want any family to go through what our family has he said. It has been catastrophic and i a sorry Carmichael sobbed into the phone. I miss my son very Carmichael 48, contacted the newspaper last week saying he wanted to help remove the social stigma around mental health issues. Carmichael was a physical activity and sport consultant who developed programs aimed at getting kids Active and into playing sports regardless of ability or skill. He was a former director of National projects at participation. He suffered depression and began taking an old anti depressant prescription ? without contacting his doctor ? two weeks before killing Ian at a Holiday inn in Lon Don. Two years later Carmichael says he believes the anti depressant pail is directly linked to the Delu Sions that led him to believe he could protect his family by killing Ian. Within a Day or two i was beginning to plan suicides and began thinking my son was going through so much pain himself he said. Then i started planning a murder suicide and then just murder. It became my mis Sion to kill Carmichael reportedly a Loving and involved father said he began planning to kill on the premise that Ian was in a living hell and had per manent brain damage. To me at the time killing Ian was an act of love and Protection Carmichael said. ? Canadian press woman pleads for husband jailed in China Toronto ? the wife of a Canadian detained in China made another desperate plea yesterday for the Federal government to help free her husband. I Pray i Hope that the Canad an government can bring my Hus band Back As soon As possible the soft spoken Kamila Telenda Ibraeva who is due to give birth to the couples fourth child any Day now said from her Home in Burlington ont., West of Toronto. We miss him so human rights organizations religious groups and opposition maps Are lending their voices to Telenda Ibraeva a cause pressuring the government to do More to help Huse incan Celil. Celil fled China in the mid?1990s and made his Way to Canada gaining refugee status. His lawyer said he is a Canadian Cit Izen and has never held a chinese passport because the ethnic minority Celil belongs to is denied that right. While Celil was visiting his wife a family in Uzbekistan in March he was arrested on a Chi Nese extradition warrant. He had been sentenced in absent a to death for founding a political party. In june he was extradited to China where he May face the death penalty for participating in terrorist activities. His lawyer said those terrorist activities Are speaking out in favour of rights for the minority uighur population. There Are conflicting reports Over Celil a Fate. Some reports say a chinese court sentenced him to death in absent a for his alleged role in an anti govern ment movement. Foreign affairs said chinese authorities maintain they wont seek the death penalty. ? Canadian press around Canada liberals have spy concerns Ottawa ? citing a possibility that hell spy on the liberals for the conservative government at least three Liberal maps say Wajid Khan should resign from his new Post As a special adviser on the Middle East and Afghanistan to prime minister Stephen Harper or quit caucus temporarily. ? Liberal my Wajid a appointment is a Slick sick calculated move on Harper a part my Maria Minna said in a letter to caucus colleagues. Ontario to Appeal ruling Toronto ? Ontario will Appeal a judges order to end negotiations in a five month Long aboriginal occupation of a housing development in Caledonia ont., attorney general Michael Bryant said yesterday. Centre seeks drunk Drivers Montreal ? Montreal a Douglas Hospital research Centre is looking for 200 hard Core drunk Drivers for a study on Why they keep getting behind the wheel while impaired. Forest fires a health Issue Edmonton ? a computer Simula Tion of Forest fires shows the Cost to human health from smoke can be a huge expense when Timber is alight. The Overall health impacts were significant when compared to other related costs such As firefighting said a University of Alberta professor. Couple sues Over Golf balls Vancouver ? a couple who live beside Eagle Crest Golf club in qual icum Beach on Vancouver Island have successfully sued Parent company Eaglestar Golf inc., in Small claims court for $4,412 plus interest for dam age to their Home caused by errant balls. ? from the news services. . For information reservations and brochure Call 7 Days a week ;