FRIDAY
May 31, 1996

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BY ROBERT GALSTER
Contributing Writer

COMMUTERS using the Second
Narrows bridge should mark
Thursday. June 6, on their calendars
as the day their daily commutes
wil] increase by anywhere from 15
to 60 minutes.

On Thursday a Ministry of Transport-
ation and Highways presentation
attempted to shed more light on the
effects of the scheduled rehabilitation
project.

‘The ministry's plans to funnel traffic
into a single Jane along both the Upper
Levels Highway Cut and Dollarton
Highway before the approach to the
bridgc.

Queues forming as a result of the nar-
rowing are expected to be backed up to
the east as far as Berkley Road, north up
the Cut to the Lynn Valley exit and west
as far as Lonsdale Avenue.

The $9 million project includes com-
plete redecking of the bridge's concrete
deck and the installation of a barrier
between sidewalks and the roadway in
both directions, Traffic management
cameras will also be installed.

The traffic snarls are expected to last
until mid-August when all six lanes will
reopen, while the project’s overall com-
pletion date is expected to be around
Christmas.

Khan challenges
verdict in killing of
her daughter-in-law

SY BRENT MUDRY
Contributing Writer

A West Vancouver woman convicted
with her husband of second-degree
murder in the strangulation and beat-
ing of their daughter-in-law is out on
$50,000 bail, pending an appeal.

Rashida Khan is free to Hive with her children
in the family’s British Properties home.

It took a B.C. Supreme Court jury one day to

reach a unanimous verdict to conviel Khan of

second-degree murder in early April.

Khan's husband Abdur, 55, who owned the
arson-charred Maharajah Restaurant — in
Gastown, was convicted in a separate trial last
year. oo,

Both were sentenced to fife imprisonment,

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bdur Khan, son Faisal, and daughter-in-law

Naazish are shown during happier times. Rashida is appealing her murder sentence.

the standard for second-degree murder. They
may be eligible for parole after 10 years.

Although the case against Rashida Khan was
circumstantial, Crown prosecutor Allan Flanz
successfully argued that she helped murder her
daughter-in-law, Naazish, in the family’s home
on Dec. £0, 1993.

Naazish's body was found the next morning
ina Coquithun cul-de-sac, stuffed in the trunk of
a Toyo Camry owned by Abdur Khan.

Naazish, the 23-year-old new bride of Faisal
Khan, the eldest Khan child, had given birth toa

haby girl two months before she was murdered.

Rashida Khan was arrested seven weeks after
the murder, The jury was shown an orange plas-
tic bag found on top of the body in the trunk
which bore her fingerprints,

Defence lawyer Larry Myers, who opted to
call aa witnesses in Ure the uial of Rashida
Khan after the Crown closed its case, now
claims that the jury's verdict was unreasonable.

Flanz confirms that Myers made a “no-evi-

See Bail page 3

Saturday: Sun and clouds
High 21°C, low 9'C.

NORTH Van Mounties stand over the body of an unidentified man who committed suicide on Monday by lying on the
tracks in front of a CN freight train at the St. Andrews Avenue crossing. The man had earlier tried to kill himself by jump-

ing in front of a bus.

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