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Delbrook family copes
with teen son’s sulcide

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Not satisfactory?

ALEX Caruth has big dreams for the Fullerton Flats site, the Downtown Business Association vice-president says his 280-mem-
bor organization has picked the site for a tunnel that would connect roads and railways in North Vancouver and Vancouver,

Jury upholds charges of arson and attempted murder |

By Anna Marie D'Angelo

Jiady-Yaghooby himself was severely burned,

arena ence A meneame

Katality sparks move
to change traffic
Residents wage

road war 4

$1.00

Bridge
plan
rejected

By Susan Pohorskt
Coatrituting Writer

WEST Vancouver coun-
cil has rejected a North
Vancouver District pro-
posal to support an >
enhanced ;

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District Council

tion of
Gate Bridge consisting
of three widened lanes

_ the Lions

_ and separated sidewalks.

A letter from Mayor Don Rell
invited West Vancouver Distriet and
North Vancouver City to support its
position,

“The North Vancouver position is
sail Coun. Russ
Fraser,

He called for a minimum of tour
lanes and improved traffic manage-

“mental the north end of the bridge.

While West Vaacouvér councillors
agree that all costs should be borne

See Tolls page V3

News Reporter danaelodn lodnisnewscam
A jury didn’t buy Manoucher Jiany:
faghooby’s defence.

‘The 63-year-otd nian claimed be was in atate af mental dis-
association when fe torched bis Camily’s West Vancouver town-
honse in 1996,

_ fiany-Yaghooby's daughter has been in a vegetative Male
since being taken aue of the burning townhouse on Mirch 20,
1996,

His gasaline-drenched wits escaped being lit on fire by the

accused nan.

‘guilty of attempting to murder his daughter, &

Hisson, Bijan, Was not home when. the blaze bepan.

On Wednesday alter one day of deliberations, a jury found
iany-Yaghooby guilty of four of the five charges against hiin.
‘The guilty verdicts were for:

Boarsens to the townhouse and the aceused's store located
below the fownhotse in the 1400-block of Clydé Avenue.
BW the attempted murder of his wife, Pahereh Majoubi, 5 52.
@ arson causing bvdlily hari to his daughter, Monijeh Jiany,
25,

The B.C. Supreme Court jury found the accused nvan so

MANOUCHER Jlany-Yaghooby was found guilty of
the arson fire that harmed his daughter Manijeh.

See Crime page Vi

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