AIQ - The Terrace Stendard, Wednesday, March 25, 1998

Killer says his plea
was made in error

TERRACE’S CROSSBOW killer is look-
ing to appeal his own guilty plea.
Hawthorne,
pleaded guilty last March to first degree
murder in the 1994 killing of Jean Gosselin.
He also pleaded guilly to manslaughter in
the death of Gosselin’s son, Yvon.
Hawthorne was sentenced to life in prison
for the murder and received eight years for

George Bliss

the manslaughter charge.

But now he says his lawyer, James Millar,
misled hin inte pleading guilty to: murder:
and the judge should not have accepted the

plea.

“The judge’s rulings in this case at the
voir-dire resulted in my not being able to
receive a fair trial,”’ Hawthorne writes in
his submission for grounds of appeal. ‘‘Due
to the rulings, the police tampering, my
lawyers influencing my plea, I was led to
believe if I did not plead puilty 1 would

never get out of prison.”’

Hawthome writes that because he spent
three years in prison on remand waiting for
his trial, bis state of mind was affected and
he would not normally have entered a

guilty plea.

He also contends that, had he received a
trial, he could not have been found guilty of
first degree murder, “by reason of self
defense, provocalion and intoxication.”

now 31,

And Hawthorne claims his case involved

‘police misconduct, witness tampering and
illegal rulings” that should be considered
in the grounds for appeal.

Hawthorne wants a trial by jury for the
first degree murder charge, He ‘is not ap-
pealing. the manslaughter charge or its
eight-year sentence.

Hawthorne filed his application for appeal

Feb. 25; It-is not-yet known if the applica-

lion will be approved.
- The stabbed: body-of Jean Gosselin, 66; - |:
was found in-the ashes of his Muller Ave.

home after il was torched Sept, 26, 1994,

ings.

The body of his son, 25-year-ald Yvon, was
found {0 days later ina shallow grave off
of Beam Station Rd. near the airport. He
had been shot iwice with a crossbow.
Hawthome and 16-year-old Christopher
Charles Williams were charged in the kill-
Williams agreed to’ testify. against

Hawthorne in exchange for a second-degree

murder plea

bargain that makes him

eligible for parole afler seven years. He is
serving his-sentence in the lower mainland,
In 1996, Hawthorne successfully had his

trial location moved from Terrace to Prince

George on the grounds that Terrace did not
have sufficient remand facilities, and that a
Jocal jury may be biased against him due to
the spectacular nature of the crimes.

Bites to carriers
are on the increase

DELIVERING newspapers
can be a hazardous job.

Dylan Graydon, age 12,
was badly bitten by a large
dog, receiving ten stitches.

Dylan was helping a
friend with a paper route
last Wednesday. He walked
up to a house on Scott Ave,
where a girl was sitting on
the front steps, petting a
large dog.

His mother, Cheryl, had
stressed to her som many
times how dangerous dogs
could be. When Dylan’s
sister was just three years
ald she was also bitten by a
dog, and ever since Cheryl

had reminded her children |

to be darelul around dogs..

So Dylan asked the girl on

the steps if the dog would
bile him. She said no, but
when he handed her the
newspaper and tumed to
walk away the dog launched
athim, biling his upper arm,
and destroying his favourite
t-shirt.

‘Tt could very well have
been his face,’ said Cheryl,
“We're just lucky, that’s
all.”

The young girl with the
dog immediately yanked
him off Dylan, saving him
from further injury.

“Tt was a big dog,” said
Dylan of the German-
Shepherd/Rottweiler cross.
**He didn’t look mean. He
was just sitting there getling
pelted.’”

The cily’s animal control
officer, Frank Bowsher, im-
pounded the dog. Bowsher
will hold the dog for ten
days to make sure it doesn’t
have rabics.

Cheryl said she’d like to

YOUNG DYLAN GRAYDON was delivering The Ter-
face Standard when a large dog bit his arm. The
city’s animal contral officer says there's been too
many dog bites already this year.

see the dog destrayed, be-
cause she’s fears the dog
could do worse damage next
time.

But Bowsher said thal
won't necessarily happen, It
Dylan’s parents file a com-
plaint, then it’s up toa judge
to decide the dog's fate.

If this bite is the dog’s
first offence, and the judge
doesn’t take any action, then
Bowsher says the dog will
have to be muzzled every
time he’s allowed to run
loose.

If the dog has bilten others
before, Bowsher says he
still has to bring the matter
before a judge.

Since the start of the year
there have been three dog
bites reported to the Terrace
shelter, a high number, says
Bowsher. Those most at risk
are mail and newspaper car-
riers.

That’s because when a
person hands someone mail
ar a newspaper, the dog per-
ceives that action as a threat
to his owner.

*"The deg doesn’t know
you're being [riendly,”? said
Bowsher. '

Bowsher would like to see .
owners of dogs who aren’t
fenced in to have a mailbox
at the end of their driveway.

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