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Martin Millerchip

News Reporter
miller@nsnews.com

GIVE them back
their guns.

That’s the message North
Vancouver District Council sent
Monday to the provincial gov-
ernment almost five months after
auxiliary police officers were
denied the right to bear arms
while on dut

Although council appeared to
be more concerned about the
lack of provincial consultation, it
unanimously endorsed a May 29
recommendation of the Joint
Police Liaison Committee (com-
prised of police and North
Vancouver City and District rep-
resentatives) that:

@8 states until such time as the
review is completed “successfully
trained auxiliary constables be
allowed to carry firearms”;

© supports the position of the
Union of British Columbian
Municipalities (UBCM) presi-
dent Steve Wallace;

@ requests provincial representa-

See Auxiliary page 1

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Anna Marie D'Angelo
News Reporter dangclo@nsnews.com

THE jury was wrong in 1996 when it
convicted Rashida Khan of the brutal

murder of her new daughter-in-law.

A B.C. Court of Appeal concluded on Monday that the 50-
year-old North Vancouver woman was found guilty with facts
“traught with such uncertainty that it must be said that the con-
viction rests on shaky ground.”

B.C. Court of Appeal Madam Justice Catharine A. Ryan,
Chief Justice Allan McEachern and Mr. Justice 1D. Michael M.
Goldie unanimously agreed to overturn Khan’s conviction and

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Beautiful beetle

Woman acquitted in 1993
West Vancouver killing

acquit her of second-degree murde

“When examined as a whole, the evidence supports the con-
clusion that Mrs. Khan knew her husband had killed their
daughter-in-law, was not unhappy he had, and tried to protect
him from being caught. It is not reasonable to go farther than
that,” wrote Ryan.

Khan and her husband Abdur Khan were charged with the
murder of their 23-year-old daughter-in-law Naazish Khan.
Naazish was the new wife of the Khans’ eldest son Faisal and

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mother of a two-month-ald baby girl when she was beaten and
strangled to death on Dec. 10, 1993,

Naazish was killed in the Khan family’s British Properties
home. Her body was wrapped in a sheet and duffel bags
Orange garbage bags were placed over the duffel bags at the
head feet and the body was tied with speaker wire.
Rashida’s fingerprint was found on one of the garbage bags. No
other fingerprint could be identified.

Naaz body was put in the trunk of a car registered to
one of the Khans’ daughters. The car was found parked a day
after the murder in a Coquitlam cul-de-sac, net far from the
home of one of Abdur’s friends.

See Evidence pane 3