MEDIATION - THE POISONED APPLE OF CHILD PROTECTION

The Poisoned Apple by DevianArt

Ray Ferris has written another timely piece today. Ray is an occasional contributor who provides sage counsel because of his years working with the Ministry of Children and Family Development. He meets many families who are struggling to recover their children from MCFD and is justifiably critical of the cruel bureaucratic delays. Today he writes about Mediation and expresses caution.

Continued: The Surrey Six Murder Trial

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GRAPHIC PHOTOS OF THE MURDER VICTIMS UPSET FAMILY MEMBERS

Kim Bolan is tweeting and reporting daily on the Trial of three accused killers and members of the drug trade in BC. You can follow her stories. I will discontinue further comments here on this blog site, unless I feel an outcome needs to be noted. Other subjects will be featured here.

JASON LE

End of week two of the Surrey Six murder trial. Here again is Kim Bolan's Vancouver Sun account of Friday's testimony. Jason Le, former drug dealer was on the stand.

DAY #9 OF THE SURREY SIX MURDER CASE

LOGO BY VANCOUVER SUN

The Surrey Six Murder Trial continues. It's almost the end of the second week of court. Kim Bolan is covering the story and has written: "Today, former drug dealer admitted at the Surrey Six trial that he initially lied to police about being in the death suite shortly before the slayings. Jason Le told Justice Catherine Wedge that he was trying to protect himself by the omission in a March 2008 interview with a homicide detective. Le testified last Friday that he visited suite 1505 of the Balmoral Tower about 1:30 p.m. after being invited to work for dealers Corey Lal and Eddie Narong. He said he stayed about 15 minutes, leaving less than an hour before Lal, Narong and four others were shot execution style."

Please read the rest of her account here.

HELEN LEE TESTIFIED SEEING 3 HOODED MEN

Helen Lee was a witness who saw three men wearing gloves and hoodies getting out of a BMW and entering the building where the murders took place. They made an impression on  her that alarmed her.
http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2013/10/08/witness-grilled-on-statements-about-hooded-men-in-balmoral-parkade/

MONDAY IN COURT

5 accused are circled - Vancouver Sun image

Monday's court time was spent with Helen Lee's witness testimony. She saw three men as suspicious on the afternoon of the killings, getting out of a BMW all wearing gloves and dark hoodies pulled over their faces. Read Bolan's account.

Follow Keith Fraser's twitter account. He's in court and sends tweets every few minutes thru the day.
Kim Bolan's Twitter account also carries regular news updates on this case.

Mohan, 22; Schellenberg, 55; Eddie Narong, 22; Corey Lal, 21; Michael Lal, 26; and Bartolomeo, 19; were shot to death execution-style, according to the Crown.
Cody Haevischer, Matthew Johnston and Michael Le have pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder.

DAY FIVE SURREY SIX MURDER TRIAL ... END OF WEEK ONE

KIM BOLAN continues to provide good coverage of this horror show. It was day five on Friday. Six people died as a result of gang retaliation, including two innocents, one of whom was a friend of mine, Ed Schellenberg. 

Read the Vancouver sun account.

DAY FOUR IN THE SURREY SIX MURDER CASE

Day Four, Thursday Oct 3rd, 2013 in the Surrey Six Murder trial is accounted by journalist Kim Bolan in an article entitled, 'Landlord inspected 1505 six days before the Surrey Six murders'. The suite was a rental and prosecution submits it was a stash house for a drug gang.

She writes: The owner of suite 1505 in Surrey’s Balmoral Tower testified Thursday that he kicked out a suspected drug dealer but then let the tenant’s friend and her boyfriend move in. Ceasar Tiojanco told Justice Catherine Wedge that he evicted tenant Sean Corbett in early 2007 after the building managers told him Corbett had a grow-op in another apartment. “Since the manager notified me about the involvement in illegal activity, I told him he has to move out,” Tiojanco testified on day four of the Surrey Six murder trial. “And then he introduced me to Desiree who he said is a good person and would be good to take over the tenancy and I agreed.” Six people, including innocent bystanders Ed Schellenberg and Chris Mohan, were shot to death in Tiojanco’s suite on Oct. 19, 2007."

DAY THREE - SURREY SIX MURDER TRIAL

Kim Bolan
photo: Nick Procaylo

Wed Sept 5 2013 - I won't follow the case publicly every day for the anticipated year long trial. I simply want to suggest to you that Kim Bolan of the Vancouver Sun, an award winning journalist and crime reporter, does a thorough job of researching and writing the account of this horrific crime that occurred six years ago. You can stay tuned to the case by referencing the Vancouver sun website and Kim Bolan's 'The Real Scoop' page. Presently, three accused men are on trial for the murder of six men, two of whom were innocent persons, who were eliminated because they were witnesses at a crime scene. One of them was Ed Schellenberg, known to me personally and to many of my friends. Here is Kim's report on Day Three.

2nd DAY IN COURT

Vancouver Sun Report here

Artist Sketch, Felicity Don, Canadian PressAccused:Cody Haevischer, Matthew Johnston,
and Quang Vinh Thang (Michael) Le 

MONDAY IN COURT

The Globe and Mail's account of the first day of court proceedings in the Surrey Six Trial.
The National Post account is here.