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KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CP) — Mr. Justice Harry McKay called David William. Shearing’ a cold-blooded murderer and sentenced him in British Columbla Supreme Court today to six concurrent life een- tences with no eligibility for parole for 25 years. ;

McKay alao prohibited Shearing, who pleaded guilty Monday ‘to six counts of second-degree murder in the slaughter of six members of the Johnson and Bentley families 20 months. ago, from possessing a firearm for five years after any parole is granted.

He also recommended the parole board prohi mat him’ from ever possessing a firearm... 9 5.

McKay said Shearing, - who celebrated his 25th birthday six days ago, had committed “‘a slaughter f six innocent peopl slaughter a: le."

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- LONDON (AP) — A gunman fired a submachine-gun from: a window of the Libyan Embassy

Mt, Libyan. studenta and aaid the embassy fired back in:**-Libyan

policewoman..was' killed. and 11 students: were injured, Scotland Yard said: a ot Police rushed to the embassy, on fashionable St. James's Square.a few blocks from Buckingham Palace, and sealed off surrounding atreets. A dozen marksmen were dropped by helicopter and a busload .of blue-bercted soldi moved into position. Se "A short time after the mid- morning shooting, a man emerged from the embasay and surren- dered. But officials said they did not know if he was the gunman. _A staffer of the Libyan news

agency JANA said the man Was. journalist Salah Najim, head ‘of:

JANA’s London bureau. The staffer, who would not give her name, said:. “He was there

covering what was happening gid

_ as he came out of thé embassy, ‘he was arrested,” ‘

‘ Dozens of police, many wearing

" bulletproof vests, . kept guns trained on the building from behind trees, lamp posts and police cars.

About 4% hours after the shooting, police spokesman Tim Mahoney told reporters: “We have

‘ eatabliahed contact with people inside the premises.” _ » He would not elaborate.

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In Tripoli, Libyan radio reported police and “agents of British in- telligence” stormed the: building.

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But: witnesses descriptions. and- videotapes showed ‘the’ students were demonstrating peacefully when they were fired upon. - -

The shooting was the latest in a string of attacks on Libyan exiles opposed to Khadafy. Last month, five bombs in London and ‘Man-

. chester injured 28 _ people.

Authorities arrested three Libyan students, deported five other Libyans and warned Libyan diplomats that Britain would not tolerate such: attacks. - :

.Those wounded in today’s attack ‘

were taken. to. Westminster Hospital, where the policewoman serlously injured demonstrators. underwent emergency surgery. The policewoman, Yvonne Fletcher, 25, later died, a police spokesman Home. Secretary Leon Britian was Co-ordinating the police and army action around the Libyan Embassy. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, in Portugal on an official visit, was being kept informed of . developments, her London office said. . . Witnesses said about 70: anti- Khadafy Libyan students, many of

' them wearing masks to avold

4s Mdefenice : agalast:.- e-mest-- a horrible terrorist action.” ~ ;

Demonstrators wounded, policew

. Square'and walked acrogs it tothe:

behing. barricades. Across. the ‘street, two groups of 20 counter- |

demonstrators also were hemmed in by officers. Richard Bowden, $1, a saleam who used to work in Saudi Arabia, said the anti-Khadafy students were shouting in Arabic ''Khadafy

_ hangs students” when the shooting :

began.

“There were no sereams,"" Bowden said. “People just started - falling. I don't -think. anyone :

realized what was happening.”

. Freelance journalist — Brian Cartmell said he -heard “what ‘seemed like a firecracker," But then “I saw , bullets”. hit’ -the Pavement and’ realized: it’ was

small arms. fire.”

“The policewoman, 15 feet in

front of me,. crumpled ‘to the ground, clutching . her Jower stomach, {Her) hat rolled slowly

into the gutter while three of.four. -

officers, shouting past me," he said.

“My God,’ ran

Bowden said there were about 10°

. shots, which “‘appeared’to come

from a window on the ground -

floor,”

After police sealed off the. square, 4 man enierged from ‘the ©

front door of the embassy. "He was instantly told by police to He on the

oman killed

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vement,"’ sald a witness.” @-man was handcuffed and ‘away ina policé car.

4” Modi: the square? ambulances : ‘stood by and police marksmen with: ~::-Shearing,. a tall’ reddish-haired ...

sheltered behind.trees. - Several : buildings, - including - British Columbia's government

automatic pistols and flak jackets

office, were evaciiated during the ~

' crisis, The provincial office, which

‘handles trade and other matters, 1x located in a-butlding which backs on to St. James's Square.

._ A man who answered the phone at the Libyan Embassy declined comment mine shooting. “sorry, we ™.don’t w anything about that,” he said.

. Claudette Williams, who works near the embassy, told a London radio station she saw the students gather in the square, then begin

. Marching toward the embassy. “We heard a round of machine: gun fire... and wesaw a student to

the right of the building fall, and,

then’ of course everything went mad,” she snid. : Advertising executive Dave Robson, also interview on the radio station, said a policeman - was brought into his office in shock, . Spparently because he was ‘the . boyfriend’ of the wourded ‘policewoman. Former foreign secretary Dayi Owen said-in a BBC interview that the Libyan Embassy was probably ” immune from being assaulted by police because of its diplomatic status. : ;

High school bus schedule could. change

by RALPH RESCHKE. | Herald Staff Writer

' . TERRACE— Terrace studénts _ aitending Caledonia Senior '- Secondary School and Skeéna

Junior Secomlary School could gee

a: change in the way they get to ‘school in: the coming school year,

1984-85, If they've been riding: the

‘School huses that. are serving :the

same-routes the municipal transit system is, yaks

Vern Rozee, Assistant Secretary-

Treasurer and a member of School

. District 68's transportation

‘LONDON (AP) — Michael Bettaney, the first officer of Britain's MI counter-esplonage agency convicted of apying since it was founded in 1000, has begun a

2-year prison sentence, but the

furore over the cage continues.

Members. of Parliament tom- plained about security lapses, and news reports today said Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. is furious and has ordered an urgent investigation by Lord Bridge, an appellate judge who heads. the Security Commission.

Bettaney, 34, who sought to spy -

for the Soviet Union but was caught, was convicted Moiday after a five-day trial. During: the

atl

committee, said that ‘the school

‘ . district currently has several bug

runs. operating, bringing in. ‘children from Rosswood, Lakelse Lake, New Remo, Old Remo, Thornhill, and basteally any children located further than 2% miles from their school; -

He says'that while there was Space available on the buses, the school district has been making a point of picking up Students until

- the bus was full.

A problem has developed over the recent months, however, in that more and more students were

‘Spy begins sentence

trial, it was revealed that he was. Promoted in 1962 within two months of a magistrates’ court conviction for being drunk in a London street, .

A policeman testified then that he found Bettaney babbling: ‘'I am 8 spy, I am a epy.” an

If his senior officers knew of the

drunk charge, ‘they have proved: _ themselves unfit to hold their of-

fives, and if they didn’t know, why not?” said Conservative MP Anthony Beavmont-Dark.

_ "Tam very disturbed about the ‘I'm agpy’ incident,” said Edward Taylor, a Tory who heads his party's home affairs committee in the House of Commons.

coming to the bus stops, hoping to catch a ride, but ending up belng turned away from the bus, due to lack of space. ;

Rozee feels that because the students are within the prescribed walk limits, they should either walk

"or utilize the . municipal - transit system, ye

“What the school district plans to

do is establish the walk limits,” -

says. Rozee, “by school and by zone, within the municipal boun- ‘daries.”” ~. ; ; - What that means for the next school year.is that any students Within the walk’ limit for their particular school, will have to walk or take the city bus in order to attend school, He says that in the area's being serviced by the municipal transit - System, the school bus service will be brought under review: by ‘the "school board, and’ there will be- attempts made hy the board to reduce the numbers of stops the school buses make within the muncipal boundaries, .

the school bus pickup routes are identical to the runs the municipal transit system makes and he feels that costs for school bussing could be reduced by having students utilize the city bus or walk to school. ; :

By eliminating some of the city runs, the school board would be

Rozee says that in many cases,

better able to service the areas that do require a bus service, namely the outlying areas.

As far as costs go for the new system, the school board ad- ministrater stated that in discussions with the municipality of Terrace (which have yet to be finalized), a figure of $10. per ‘student per month has been suggested, .

This would break down to a cost of 25 cents per ride, and Rozee says that preliminary discussions with

the city have indicated that students would be able to use the passes tore than twice a day,

School board trustee, Rusty Ljungh says that even though the

provincial government has set out _

guidelines for the schoo! boards to base their decisions on, ‘‘you can't just put a blanket on the limits and declare that everyone living within twa miles or three miles of school will have to walk." '

She realizes there are areas

within the walk limits for both Thornhill. and Terrace that just aren't safe for children to walk and therefore the school board will be studying all aspects of the problem when they make a decision on the walk Ikmita.

She thinks that in the long run, the municipal bus service will benefit because a regular clientele will be built up by studenta uullizing

. the transit system,

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their whole lives ahead‘of them.” ‘McKay said the killings were a tragedy anda waste, . . “Abd for what? The only motive was that he possibly coveted some of their possessions.” - HAD ANOTHER SIDE The judge said ‘the letters filed with the court supporting Shearing painted a picture of him as a setisitive man, McKay said he had to consider that ‘side of Shearing's personality but there is another side. .. -

- “Obviously there is another side - to David Shearing that his familly

and friends are unaware of which

dangerous man.”

. Mmakes,.in- my’ mind “a. very

‘man whith a mustache and prominent nose, stood: motionless and showed no emotion as McKay

‘imposed tha maximum sentence,

Brian Bentley, 30, of North Delta, B.C. the Bentleys’ son, said he was satisfied with the sentence.

“That's all he can get. It's the maximum and It’s never been done

’ before.

“It’s over, we can start putting it d us.” .

McKay was told that Shearing signed statements Nov. 19 and Nov. 20, 1963, outlining how he murdered the six members of the Johnson and Bentley families. The families were camping at Wells Gray . Provinclat Park kilometres north of here,

Crown counsel Robert Hunter read from the statements that sometime between Aug. 6 and 13, 1982, Shearing sneaked up on the campsite one night and watched the two families. | :

. The next night, he returned with a .22¢alibre rifle, came around the Bentley's truck and gunned down the. four — altting wed a ite campfire. Shearing rt and Jacqueline Johnson of Kelowna, B.C., and Jacqueline's parents, George and Edith Bentley of Port Coquitlam, B.C. ; Shearing then went to the tent a nd shot the Johnson’s two daughters, Janet, 13, and Karen, il

He put the bodies in Johnson's ‘car and hid it near his home. He then went back for the camper and parked it with the car.

The next night, he drove the car to.a remote spot in the park and set it aflame using gasoline. The car and what remained of. the bodies

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were found in September 1982. ‘A couple of nights later, after

taking some things the truck including tapenfoconnen a camera and a boat and moter,

Shearing drove the truck to remote Spay near @ ravine and burned it as well. ;

WRONG TRACK The truck was not. discovered

' until October 1983. Interviews with

Clearwater residents led police to believe that two French-Canadian men were driving it, The pair were spotted in North Battleford, Sask., and then police decided to drive a

camper from British Columbia to Quebec in hope of

more information.

"Police also hada re-enactment of

the crime shown on television .

across Canada in an attempt to get more leads.

” “About 20 relatives and friends-cf the Johnsons and Bentleys sat in the first two rows of the 76-year-old

_ Courtroom and listened as Kaatz - read a letter from Shearing's

brother, Greg, Greg, a former deputy sheriff and corrections officer, described

‘hig brother as hard-working,

sensitive, -- jonate and always Willing td help serene in need

In the letter, Greg asked: “What happened to this young fellow who was kind and considerate?” STARTED DRINKING

Greg said that thelr father developed Jung cancer in 1981 and David “drank hard and worked hard trying not to realize that Dad would soon not be around.”

The father died In March 1982 of

’ a heart attack suffered during his _ final chemotherapy treatment: : Greg admitted his brother had _

“some minor brushes with the

law”. and. had been- convicted of... ‘possession of marten ti*1980 and fined $50 as well as convicted

of impaired driving in 1983' and fined $500. - ph But he said his brother is filled with remorse about the killings and “is at pain with himself.” Other — supporting Sescribed Shearing as shy, con- siderate, well-réad and of above

average intelligence, .

Shearing finished second in his mechanics class at Cariboo College in Kamloops ‘and at the Hime of his arrest was taking business Management COUTsES by correspondence from an American university,

NO ANGUISH

Asked how the family. felt at- tending the trial, George and Edith Bentley's son, Brian sald they felt no anguish. “Being this involved, ‘we just wanted to set it firat hand."

Earlier in the day, Hunter said police were told last falt — more than a year afler the murders ~ that Shearing was asking if it

- would be possible to fix up a 1981

Ford camper truck and patch a bullet hole. .

That lead RCMP in November 1983 to question Shearing, who had moved from Clearwater, B.C., on the boundary of the park to Tumbler Ridge in northeastern B.C. to look for a job,

They also had some evidence that in 1980, Shearing had driven over a man Who had passed out on the road and failed to report the accident to police. The man had a blood-alcohol! level of .24 and was killed by the accident,

Although Shearing admitted to the hit-and-run during the in- terviews, he has not been charged.

Newfoundland leaders cynical over sale

HALIFAX (CP) — Newfoun- diand leaders reacted with cynicism Monday to the an- nouncement - that Eastern Provincial Airways has been sold to CP Air, with EPA's majority shareholder, Ha Steele, pocketing millions of dollars in the

CP Alr bought EPA and its subsidiary, Air Maritime, for $67 million, of which $20 million went to Steele, EPA’s president.

Steele said CP Air has assumed about #47 milllon of EPA's debts. and will have to spend about $200 million over the next three years to do various things, including buying new airplanes,

EPA will remain separate from CP Alr. and its jogo will stay the aame.

Steele, a Newfoundlander who took over the Atlantic regional airline in the mid-1970s, has been attacked frequently Newfoundland politiclana aver bie

decision to move EPA's head office to Halifax from Gander, Nfld. Premier ‘Brian Peckford end Gander Mayor Doug eppard denounced the purchase, . saying

Steele moved. to Halifax - only because CP Air insisted on fit as a prelude to the takeover, itt

A Steele, declaring it felt good to bose $20 million in his jeans, denied the allegations. He said it-was a business transaction and nothing else.

EPA and CP fir signed a working agreement last year to co- ordinate schedules on some flights and to share equipment and per- sonnel

“T think there was no way that CP would buy out EPA while they were still In Gander because of the expensive move that would be involved," Mayor Sheppard sald in an interview. “Once they got Mr, Steele to move, of course, that cleared the way for them for the takeover." .

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