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WEDNESDAY
April 12, 1995

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Compensation
set at $24,500

A WEST Vancouver man
who was found guilty of
chopping down three 110-
year-old trees in West
Vancouver’s. Lighthouse
Park has agreed to pay
$24,506 in compensation.

By Anna Marie D'Angelo

News Reporter

But Laurie Richmond’s sen-
tence for criminal mischief relat-
ing to the felled trees has been
put off until April 21.

“This matter is deserving of
some reflection,” Judge Reginald
Grandison said on Monday in
West Vancouver provincial court.

Richmond, 57, was charged after neighbors
reported the felled trees in February 1993.
Richmond lives at 4860 Water Lane, near an

east access to Lighthouse Park.

“Mr. Richmond arranged for the cutting of
the three trees in Lighthouse Park. He did so for
selfish reasons ... to increase light to his per-

Sipe ae: j ‘ s ae 5
NEWS photo Mike Wakefield
A NORTH Vancouver man was killed Monday morning after his car slammed head-on
into the Mountain Highway overpass at the foot of the Upper Levels Highway. Cut.
William Pickerill, 46, the car's fone occupant, died after his 1987 Olds hit a cement
abutment near the eastbound slow lane then slammed into the overpass. See page 5.

“He (Richmond) stated that
‘Shirley (West Van municipal
arborist Dr. Shirley Nicolson) is
probably going to fine me’ and
then he. laughs,” said Selbie
MacDonald.

She said that a deterrent sen-
tence of a $2,000 to $4,000 fine
plus a “short period of incarcera-
tion” was appropriate.

But Richmond's lawyer.
Derrick. Daniels, said the trees
were cul because his client's
wife, Jennifer, had a “perceived
problem” with the healthy trees.

“She was afraid the trees
would fall on the property.” said
Daniels.

Lighthouse Park is leased to

West Vancouver District by the
federal government.
. Daniels said the compensa-
WEST VANCOUVER arborist Or. Shirley Nicolson surveys the tion agreement had saved West
site where trees were cut illegally in Lighthouse Park, Vancouver municipality and the
: 1 . federal government “time and
bother" in a civil lawsuit.

“And himself?” said Grandison, referring to
Richmond.

“And himself." acknowledged Daniels.

The value of the trees was estimated at

NEWS photo Terry Peters

sonal property.” said Crown lawyer Linda
Selbie MacDonald, :
Selbie MacDonald said Richmond asked
Bill Suan, of North Vancouver's Beaver Tree
Services Ltd., to cut down the trees. :
Stuart recorded 4 conversation between the

two men. See Financial page 3

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