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July 30, 1989 News 985-2131 Classified 986-6222 Distribution 986-1337 60 pages 25¢

BURNABY COUNCIL HONORS HERO FOR ACT OF BRAVERY

Capture of vicious att
earns NV man recogn

HE WAS an ordinary North
Shore citizen who performed
an exceptionas act of
heroism.

By TIMOTHY RENSHAW
News Reporter

And Robert Leach-Moore was
recognized for that heroism Mon-
day night with a bravery award
from Burnaby Council.

“It was a very nice award,”’
Leach-Moore said Wednesday. ‘‘It
had some very nice words on it.’’

On Dec. 22 of last year, the 50-
year-old B.C. Tel employee was
jogging in Burnaby’s Central Park
just before noon as part of the
company’s main office fitness
program, when a small boy came
running at him frantically from a
park washroom screaming for his
mother.

Leach-Moore, who did not ini-
tially know that the boy’s mother
had been viciously attacked and
repeatedly stabbed in the
washroom, said only that he knew
‘Sit was not a_scraped-knee
scream.’”

The mate assailant had followed
the boy and then fled on foot
down Kingsway, which borders the
park.

Though another male had
shovted soon after that a woman
had been stabbed, Leach-Moore
was unsure of what had happened
until the female victim, Elaine
Logan, “staggered around the
corner covered in blood.”

Leach-Moore said she was look-
ing towards the man who had fled
down Kingsway and identified him
as the person who had attacked
her.

He pursued the man.

Catching up to him on nearby
Jersey Avenue, Leach-Moore,
alone, subdued Logan’s attacker
and revurned with him to Central
Park, where police eventually took
the man in to custody.

Stanley Mohninger, 29, of
Richmond has since been convicted
of attempted murder in connection
with the assault, and sentenced to
life in prison.

Elaine’ Logan, 31, and her
seven-year-old son Craig, who was
also given a bravery award by
Burnaby council for his action in
calling for help for his mother, are

acker
ition

still struggling to recover from the
physical and emotional wounds
suffered in the attack.
Burnaby RCMP Const.
Bowles said Leach-Moore

Tim
was

“certainly a very special person to
have gone to such lengths. We
would hope that other people
would do something in a similar
situation, but he went above and
beyond. It certainly was appreci-
ated.”’

HERO Robert Leach-Moore
«anyone ‘‘would have donc the
same thing."’

Leach-Moore, a North Van-
couver father of two, said he gave
no second thought to pursuing the
attacker even though he was un-
doubtedly endangering himself by
doing so.

“IF think most men, or women
for that matter, if they had seen
the state of Elaine would have
done the same thing,’’ he said.

Leach-Moore added that, more
than anything else, he was angry:
angry that the assailant kept turn-
ing around and looking back at the
scene of the crime as he made his
getaway down Kingsway; angry
that ‘the was looking back with
that look that said, ‘I got away
with it.”””

Dr. James Olafson, a Burnaby
veterinarian, also received an
award from Burnaby council for
the work he did in attending to
Logan’s wounds at the scene of the
attack.