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December 1992,

Capilano Estates, in the
3300-block of  Canilano
Road, was buile abeut seven
years ago. on the site where
the Canyon Heights restau-
rant used ta stand.

The strata apartments
include 82 units. Strata owners
are primurily seniors, said Wells.

According to the North
Vancouver RCMP, Denis was
hired by the new srrata in
1991. Two bank accounts
were set up to be used by the
property management, which
did such jobs as arranging to
pay the gardeners.

A routine annua) audit of
the strata the next year, police
say, reveaded financial irregular-
ities with the bank accounts.

Police say Denis used the
strata money to pay off per-
sonal debts and to pay other
strata council debts in the
Lower Mainland.

North Vancouver provin-

Judge Jerome

Paradis required Denis to per-

form 200 hours of communi-
ty work service.

Paradis ordered the Port
Coquitlam resident to pay
$53,585.73 in compensation.

-D. Property Manage-
ment was based on Robson
Street in Vancouver.

Capilano Estates strata
chairman said the present
property management is bond-
ed and insured against fraud.

By Andre Ramshaw
Contributing Writer

GETTING inside the
mind of an alleged
killer is the difficult
task facing jurors this
week in the trial of
Michel Andre Caouette.

They must sift through dry
and often conflicting psychi-
atric evidence as the defence
presents its case that the 43-
year-old) North Vancouver
man was nat aware of hic
actions when his nwo childsen
were attacked on July 13,
1995.

Defence lawyer John
White argues that the unem-
ployed clothing salesman was
suftering from a mental disor-
der on that summer morning.
Caoue‘te is charged with the
first-degree murder of his
daughter Danielle, 11, and
the attempted murder of his
son, Joshua, who is new 14
and seriously brain damaged.

The Crawn has maintained
over the three-week B.C.
Supreme Court trial thar
Caouette was fully aware of
his actions that morning and
attacked his children with an
axe in an act of vengeance
against his estranged wife.

Qn Monday, a psychiatrist
ar B.C. Forensic Institute in
Coquitlam testified that she

interviewed Caouette twice in
1995 and found that his recol-
lection of the fateful day can-
sisted of “isolated vignettes.”
Dr. Elisabeth Zoffmann, a
detence witness, said under
cross-examination by prosecu-

Bellows that she also
interviewed
Caouette’s family but did not
tape the conversations,

She said it was policy not
to record such interviews and
she relied on her note-taking
to capture information con-
sidered significant.

But Bellows
Zoffmann, who — found
Caouette suicidal == and
depressed but fit co stand trial,
on why she made little note of
the alleged violence that
occurred between Caouette
and his ex-wife, Diana
Roxburgh. Zurfmann said she
mentioned in a report that
Caouette had shown aggres-
sion toward Roxburgh and
she felt that was sufficient.

If she had included every
scrap of information in her
report, she said, it would have
run to §0 or 75 pages rather
than 10. Bellows, however,
said the nine incidents of
abuse Roxburgh testified she
suffered at the hands of
Caouette surely rate more
than a one-line mention.

Does it noc show that the

dis full of anger and
malice toward his wife?,

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Bellows asked. “It would cer-
tainly indicate he had a
marked anger problem,”
Zoftmann replied.

Bellows read portions of a
Liens Gate Hospital (LGH)
report that indicated Caouette
was tired and sad but had no
signs of psychosis. Caguette
spent time in the LGH psychi-
atric ward betore his arrest in
fuly 1995, “People speaking
in the vernacular would call it
(psychosis) crazy,” Zoffmann
explained.

Zoffmann denied brushing
off the LGH findings and said
she used it in’ conjunction
with other data to write her
report. “1 wouldn't have
ignored it,” she told the
Vancouver trial before Justice
Allan Thackray, “but I would
have compared it with other
collateral information I had.”

On Friday, Zoffmann said
she found Caouette’s frag-
mented recollections of the
fateful day to be consistent
with the actions of a man in a
dissociative psychotic state.
But she agreed with a Crown
suggestion that Caouette may
simply have lied about his

A psychiatrist testified
this week about Michel
Caouette’s mental state.

actions that day in order to
avoid responsibility.

The psychiatrist also testi-
fied that Caouette was strong-
ly motivated to see his chil-
dren and that may account for
the LGH conclusion that, a
month before the attack, he
was found to have no major
mental illnesses or psychoses.

Bellows suggested it was
significant that only a month
before the attack Caouette
had been diagnosed as free of
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