Niedia

emind me not to have any dinner tomor-

row. And it would be just as well not to

have any breakfast or lunch. Not only that,

but keep the newspapers away from me. They’re

full of bad news food news.

, [lamented at the time that
such a killer. could not be
hanged, and said that our
politicans and do-gooders
were barmy for thinking that
the. death penalty was no
. deterrent. It was no deter-
rent, I said, when a killer of
the Park Royal sort knew his
own precious neck was safe,
no matter what.
I believed that in a case
like this one every citizen
‘ would without question help
’ the police find the killer. But
“when Detectives . Stuart
. Leishman and Colin McKay
‘of West Vancouver showed
“up at BCTV they got no
> eo-operation.
. They .knew that Evan
. Clifford Evans had been in-
_terviewed at the 1983 Grey
, Cup game, and that he'd
‘ been shown on camera.
: Could they see the tape? The

: - photos they had of him were
*: of poor: quality, and the tape

“+ could be important for their
-- investigation. (Evans, who
was found. guilty of the
murder last Monday, had
. not yet been arrested.)

The detectives. spoke to_

Bill Elliott, vic--president in
charge of production, and to

station..boss Ray Peters.

And, ‘no, they couldn’t see
. the tape. Goodbye.
-:.The. policemen had a
“search ‘warrant, but were
-..reluctant to use it. Cameras
" : .were-in the offing and they

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has duty to aid justice

zens to aid the course of
justice. (The detectives in-
sist, by the way, that they
did not barge into BCTV
like a bunch of Keystoners,
They wanted help, and

get this straight

by Doug Collins

could see themselves appear-
ing on that night’s news. But
the last thing they wanted
was publicity. Evans would
hear about it and bolt town.
So they left, full of wonder
at the ways of the media.

“I guess you guys have
your own code of ethics,’’
Det. Leishman commented
when I was discussing the
Evans case with him, ‘‘but
that business really fried me.
Only a week. before, a man
had been shot down without
mercy.’”
I phoned Elliott. The
BCTV man seemed to be a
little testy, and kept
repeating: ‘‘Our news
department is not an extcn-
sion of the police depart-
ment.” Even I knew that, of
course,

He also said: ‘‘We don’t
want the people involved in
creating a crime to think that
the news is automatically a
part of the police -depart-
ment.” And the police lied,
he said, when they claimed
they had a search warrant. (I
checked back with . Det.

-McKay. He toid me the war-

rant was issued July. 6 in
West Vancouver by Mrs.

.Mary Epps, J.P.)

The warrant is largely ir-
relevant. We are not talking
about legalities, of which
Elliott made much. We are
talking about common sense
and the moral duty of citi-

spoke and acted according-
ly.)

A case can be made for
news organizations’ denying
information to the police. It
is also true — as Elliott im-
plied — that news people are
not there to be coppers’
narks. But, without stating
beforehand that BCTV was
involved, I asked two TV
news executives whether they
woud have helped the police
in an instance of this sort.

One was CKVU news
director Dave Biro. The
other was Lawrence
McDonald of the CBC. CBC
policy, said McDonald, was

_to let people screen anything

that had been on air if there
was good reason for them to
see it. Biro also said he
would show the tape.

Here are a.couple of
thoughts for Elliott and
Peters:

Would they rather see an
Evans walking the streets
than provide information
from BCTV’s sacred
newsroom that might lead to
such a jerk’s conviction?

Would

they deny such

assistance to the police if one -

of their own relatives had
been gunned down?
Whatever the answers,

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“BCTV Denied Cops Aid
in Evans Murder Case.’’

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