@ Around Town.............14
& Bright Lights.............12
@ Business.........27
@ Classifieds. .38
B Collins... eT
@ Croseword....................41
B Day in Court.................8
@ Insights...............0.0..0.......68
B Mailbox.

@ WN. Shore Alert............8
8 Portside........................30
BE Sports... cccccscsecene OH
@ Sunshine Girl............24
BTV Listings -. 38
8 Wright...

@ Super snacks
for Super Bowl: 26

B Table Hepping’s
Power Lunch: 16

arts

# Helens Bonham
Carter profiled: 13

_@ Jay Brazeau sealed
with'a dite: ‘48

NEWS photo Paul McGrath

Gun nonsense maims pet

SENSEI THE cat sports a disturbing permanent wink after being a victim of a pel-
let gun last month near its Lower Lonsdale home. Sense’s owner, Chelsa

Weather

Thursday: Mainly cloudy
High 4°C, low -3°C.

N. Shore pair fight

extradition to U.S.

ATIF RAFAY, 19, claims he
heard his autistic sister Basma
moaning at a muitiple murder
scene, but he left her for dead.

By Brent Mudry
Contributing Writer

“He said he did not check on his sister
because he couldn’t save her.” federal
Department of Justice lawyer Deborah
Strachan recalled of Rafay’s initial state-
ment to Seattle-area police.

In the first day of extradition pro-
ceedings Monday in B.C. Supreme
Court for Rafay and Glen Sebastian
Burns. 20, Strachan outlined the body of
evidence implicating the two close
friends in the triple murder of Rafay’s
family a year and a half ago. Burns and
Rafay graduated in June 1993 from West
Vancouver secondary school. Rafay
went on to attend Cornell University that
fall.

Rafay’s parents, Tariq and Sultana,
both 56, were bludgeoned to death in
their new home in the Seattle suburb of
Bellevue on July 12, 1994. Basma Rafay,
21. died in hospital from similar injuries
a short while later. Police allege Burns
beat the family to death with a baseball
bat while Rafay watched. The two
allegedly intended to split $350,000, the
value of Rafay’s parents’ house and life
insurance policies.

The pair face three charges of aggra-
vated first-degree murder. If Washington
state authorities succeed in the extradi-

Saizborn, has spent $800 in veterinarian fees to help the cat. (See story page 3.)

Parents blast polis,
teachers, trustees

IN THE wake of last week’s fir-
ing of the District 44 school
board, North Vancouver par-
ents levelled their sights at
trustees, teachers and _ politi-
cians at a meeting Monday.

By lan Noble
News Reporter

North Vancouver NDP MLA David

Schreck, who lobbied for the board's
dismissal after it failed to deal with its
growing deficit, was the target of sev-
eral verbal brickbats.

One audience member asked
Schreck if he was prepared to help
solve the “major funding problems”
facing District 44.

When Schreck answered by dis-
cussing how 10 other districts in the
red have plans to deal with their bud-

See District page 3

HANDSWORTH' S GYM hosted a so!
meeting of trustees, politicians and parents Monday.

tion case, Burns and Rafay face life

See DNA page 11

NEWS photo Paul McGrath
metimes raucous