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A SURREY truck driver faces two charges following a single motor vehicle accident on the Upper Levels
Highway at Westview Drive Tuesday afternoon. According to a North Vancouver RCMP spokesman, Barry
Verheff was driving west on the highway when the truck went out of control at about 12:15 p.m. and
struck the highway median. The truck was carrying a load of peat. The driver suffered abrasions in the
accident. He faces charges for failing to maintain brakes and failing to keep a daily inspection log.

Crown to seek dangerous offender declaration for accused

THE PROSECUTOR in the trial of a man charged with
attempted murder and sexual assault following an incident
outside the Bridge House restaurant in North Vancouver
last month may attempt to have the man declared a dan-

gerous offender.

David Alexander Snow, 37, was
tried this week in North Van-
couver provincial court on seven
charges.

He was arrested July 12 at
about 4 a.m. outside the Bridge
House restaurant after police
found him standing over a bound
and gagged female employee of

By Surj Rattan
News Reporter

the restaurant.

None of the victims in the case
can be named under a_ court-
imposed publication ban.

REACHING EVERY

Snow has pleaded not guilty to

one charge each of:

@ attempted murder;

@ sexual assault causing bodily
harm;

® sexual assault with a weapon;

@ overcoming resistance in the
commission of an offence;

@ misuse of a firearm;

@ unlawful confinement;

® confinement against will.

Snow had earlier pleaded guilty
to 11 charges laid against him, in-
cluding two counts of sexual
assault with a weapon, one count
of sexual assault and four counts

of armed robbery.

On Aug. 21, Snow signed a
statement of facts in which he
admitted to:

@ entering a women’s clothing
store in Vancouver on June 29
and sexually assaulting the lone
female clerk;

@entering a Burnaby
photography studio on July 3,
stealing $165 from the lone female
clerk and then walking the woman
across the Second Narrows Bridge
to North Vancouver to a make-
shift camp in bushes on the
southwest corner of the Upper

Levels Highway and Westview
Drive where he bound, gagged
and sexually assaulted her.
@ going to a Movieland outlet at
the Westview shopping centre on
July 11, tying up the owner, steal-
ing $80 and abducting a female
employee before taking her and
the victim from the Burnaby
photography studio to the Mount
Seymour area.

But under cross-examination
Wednesday in North Vancouver
provincial court by Crown counsel

See Snow page 3