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boy does not. Actually
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doesn’t know what to *

believe because his |

brother keeps. trying t to .

tell him the truth.
‘This issue. the. :
inquiring Reporter asks.

young people: “When
did you: stop: believing

in Santa Claus?”

"Guerrero" ‘said | he. then
weni home and tried to sober
up. After sleeping for several -
_ hours. he awoke his 17-year
--old son Tony and told him to.
| he him Rose’ s house...

“He. said: his intention was. -
to talk to his wife and ask her

.to go back home with him. :

_ Rese said ‘he and “Mrs.
Guerrero were in the kitchen

_when they heard someone
kicking on the front door. |

He picked up a baseball

bat and headed for the. door...

Before reaching it, the door
flew open and in burst Tony
and his father.

“First thing I knew they

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L figured. it out when I
realized that Santa could not
really check on all the girls
and boys to see if they had
been .good. I. think Iw
about ten.

“were rushing in - Gordon
. Guerrero and his son Tony.”

Rose ‘testified | ‘that ‘Tony

- Guerrero held his arms while’

Guerrero kicked - him in the

groin and over the rest of his |
> body and struck him with his |
a fists. ; . . ,

they were only attempting to
defend themselves.

But Rose testified he had
been . hospitalized for five

days after the fight with.

multiple’ bruises, a broken

_fose. and a broken ring:
finger.

They admitted, however,
that they had kicked in the

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“The. Guerreros: ‘had a
‘different story. saying Rose
' Started swinging the ‘bat as
soon as they entered and

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North Vancoaver

‘My older sister. told me.
She said Santa Claus was a
bunch of baloney.

door, but said they did so to
attempt to disarm Rose who
they knew had a bat. ies

Day.

window in the door.

‘The three wrestled their

_ way out the front door and on >

to the ‘porch.

Here the: “stories again

‘differed.
THROWN OVER RAILING
"Rose testified he was

thrown over the porch

‘railing.

**l remember them ‘throw-
ing me off the porch. Both of
them held me up and threw
me over the-balcony.”’

The Guerrero’s however,

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I stopped believing when I
visited: Santa at the local
shopping mall and I asked
him for a cassette recorder. I
didn't get one.

porch and the elder Guerrero

‘simply stepped aside which
- propelled Rose over. the

railing.

Rose said Guerrero them
came off the porch and
kicked him in the face as he

_-knelt on the lawn.

.Guerrero admitted to pun- _
ching Rose in the face before .

walking home with his son.

Defense counsel based
his case on the proposition
that Rose had consented to
the assault by his. previous
actions. Breaking down the
door was part of the fight --
an attempt to disarm Rose.

Judge Nancy Morrison
was having none of this linc
of defence however.

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said Rose rushed them on the

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I was five or six at the time

when my friend told me the~
‘truth about Santa Claus. I:
_ cried for days.

She said she could find no
defence for Guerrero’s
actions, but said the case was.
not an ordinary one. —

Judge Morrison said she

had no reason to disbelieve. | ;

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warned to

less a person than Premier
Bill Bennett.

In a letter to West Van
council written by Bennett
November 20 in his capacity
as Minister of Transport. at
that ume, the premier notes
that there have been a
number of highway incidents
in Canada in recent months

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T stopped believing after I

-‘sat-on Santa's ‘knee and he
- didn’t bring me anything that

I had asked. for.

evidence of. harassment

- and said Rose's actions were
Pertinent | to ‘sentencing.

"She put over. sentencing to

give Guerrero time to pro-
. ‘duce: character 1 witnesses.

: involving buses. | with some
evidence: that’ the: buses. were

mechanically, deficient. kee

“Benneu admits’ that the
safety record in B.C: is very
good, But nevertheless he
asks that tcip
“again satisfy yourself: that
your. vehicle mainienance
and repair ‘program is as
thorough as lam sure you
want it to be.

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