Drunk driver guilty

A KITIMAT drunk driver had a
blood-alcohol content more than
three times the legal limit when
he crashed his car and nearly
killed an eight-year-old girl,

Paul Duncan Grisdale-
Verschoore, 35, was found guilty
here June 21 af impaired driving
causing bodily harm and criminal
negligence. causing bodily harm
in connection with the accident
on Feb, 25, 1993. ;

RCMP experts told Supreme
Court Justice J.S. Sigurdson that
-bload tests an hour after the acci-

dent showed Grisdale-Verschoore
had a blood-alcohol content of
0.246 milligrams alcohol per hun-
dred millilitres of blood. The
legal limit is 0.08 mg/ml.
. Experts calculated that his
blood-alcohol level at the time of
the accident could have been as
high as 0.275, court was told.

-Grisdale-Verschoore was driv-

~ ing on the wrong side of the road

from Kitimat to Kitamaat Village
when he met another vehicle
coming around a blind corner;

He swerved across the road
three times before the vehicle
dropped 10 feet into an icy pond,
court was told,

Eight-year-ald Adrienne Wil-

liams was thrown from the
vehicle into the frigid waters.

Passers-by rescued Williams —
who wasn’t breathing — and
Tesuscitated her.

Court heard evidence that
Grisdale-Verschoore _ interfered
with their ¢fforts, telling them
**Tt’s too late.’’

The girl was laken to hospital
with serious head injuries.

Prosecutors said she has since
made a ‘‘miraculous recovery.’’

She has no apparent brain
damage, but has scars in her face,
a metal plate in her head, and a
metal plate in her arm.

Justice  Sigurdson found

‘THE DRIVER of this pickup was taken to haspital last Wednes-
~, day with minor injuries after slamming Into a power pole. The ac-

cident happened on Queensway Drive at Kenworth St. at 6:54

- p.m. dune 29. The Collision cracked the hydro pole and plunged
’’. parts of Terrace, Thornhill and

Lakelse Lake into darkness for

more than an hour, Police said a charge of driving without due
care and attention is pending against a 17-year-old male driver.

sentenced to one day in jail and
was fined $3,500 after pleading

7 _ guilty to marijuana cultivation.

‘ John Carlos Fernandes, 30, was
convicled June 15 on charges of

cultivation. _and arcotic posses-

sion.

“He had been charged with pos-
session for the purpose of traf-
licking, but the court reduced the
charge to simple possession and
fined him an additional $150 on

Weed grower fined

_ & THORNHILL man has been

that count.
Police raided Fernandes’ Cot-
tonwood Crescent home in

. Thormhili on April 5, 1993 and

seized 87 high grade marijuana
plants.

The plants — = yalued at $80,000
were found in-a concealed
room in the crawlspace beneath
the house.

Police also seized a range of
hydroponic growing equipment
found on the scene.

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Grisdale-Verschoore acted with

‘‘a wanton and reckless disregard
for the lives and safety of other
people.”

Earlier in the night, a gas sta-
tion attendant called the police
after watching Grisdale-
Verschoore fake two or three at-
tempts to hand money through a
Slot ina glass window.

Crown. prosecutors described
him as too drunk to post a letter.

Accident reconstruction experts
testified that the car had to be
travelling at least 71 kilometres
per hour — in a 50 kilometre per
hour zone — at the time of the
accident.

The driver of the oncoming
vehicle estimated their speed at
around 100 kilometres per hour.

Grisdale-Verschoore and the
two other occupanis — Agnes
Melody Green and Shawn Green
— escaped serious injury.

He will be sentenced Sept. 12.

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