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THE 24-YEAR-OLD MAN charged in connection with the
stabbing death of North Vancouver’s Donald Duplissie will
be sentenced today after being found guilty Wednesday by a
B.C, Supreme Court jury of second-degree murder.

Edward Douglas Lakes, 24,
faces a minimum sentence of 10
years in jail for his second-degree
murder conviction.

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MURDER victim Donald Duplissie
(Grade:.8 school photo)...killed
after argument with Edward

~Lakes.

: Duplissie’s body was found
March 14, 1987, in the parking lot
of North Vancouver's St. Thomas
Aquinas: high school. His throat
had been slashed.

‘ A’ second-degree murder charge
was laid against Lakes three days
after the body was found.

During the 2%-week B.C.
Supreme Court trial, the jury
heard. that Duplissie, 24, was
almost decapitated after being
struck approximately 15 times in

the head, face and neck with blows
that were consistent with the use of
a machete.

Other evidence given during the
judge-and-jury trial indicated that
the incident was sparked by an
argument between the two men
over. Duplissie’s attempts to con-
vince Lakes to start attending
church, and that Lakes fought
with Duplissie after Duplissie had
swung what Lakes thought to be a
rope at him.

North Vancouer RCMP Sat.
Brian Guzda confirmed Thursday
that, prior to the murder, Lakes
and Duplissie had been drinking at
the Booze Can, an illegal after-
hours bar on Seymour Boulevard
that the two were known to fre-
quent,

The Booze Can has since been
shut down.

Other trial evidence indicated
Lakes and Duplissie had also been
using drugs.

Guzda would not say if the two
were involved in any criminal ac-
tivity together. Lakes does have a
criminal record, but Guzda declin-
ed to give details.

During the investigation, police
made recordings of Lakes’ conver-
sations, one of which included him
telling his girlfriend, Shelly Levine,
of the incident.

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