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April 2, 198600 News 985-2131 Classified 986-6222 Circulation 986-1337

KELLY SENTENCED TO 25 YEARS

Tot killer confesses |

DARREN ANDREW Kelly pleaded guilty Tuesday to the has no history of juvenile detin- Alternative Secondary School. “He was crying. He confessed,
first-degree murder of three-year-old Genoa (Genni) May. quency, but was constantly in Phil Wonnacott, a close friend but said it was someone else inside
8 3 ; ( ) y trouble in school and had difficul- of the confessed murderer, said he him that had told him to take the

ty in accepting authority, accor- noticed a perceptible change in girl. He said he wantec! help.’

Appearing in a packed, emo-

7 tion-filled courtroom before IMOTHS t ding to a probation report follow- Kelly following the death of Kel- Wonnacott said he had spoken

i Supreme Court Chief Justice Allan sport ing his first conviction. ly’s mother in 1983. to Kelly since his ‘riend’s first

i McEachern, the 20-year-old North Kelly, who has lived in North Following Kelly’s arrest, Won- court appearance Dec. 20. Kelly,

y Vancouver man admitted he ab- that for burglary in January, 1985. Vancouver since 1968, attended  nacott said he received a call from he said, had tried to commit
ducted the daughter of Tom and Besides that conviction, Kelly North Vancouver’s Keith Lynn a distraught Kelly. suicide several times.

Linda May from their Sechelt
motel room Dec. 13, 1985.

Kelly told the hushed court he
took her to a park, sexually
assaulted her and left the girl,
where she was found dead.

; » Following, the confession, Tom

i May. who was sitting in the court-

: room’s front row, suddenly lept -
from his chair, vaulted a court
table and got his hands on the
bullet- proof plexiglass surrounding
the prisoner’s dock.

May was forcibly removed from
the courthouse by sheriff's depu-
lies.

Calling Genni May’s death a
tragic loss, Chief /Justice
McEachern sentenced Kelly to life

. imprisonment. with no; eligibility

' for parole for 25 years. .

In his single statement before

L sentence, Kelly told/ the court,
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“Sorrow is not forever, love is.”*

; But outside the courthouse, May
y told reporters his sorrow would .
: indeed be forever, and that he had
no regrets about irying to get the
avcused in the courtroom: “‘Sorry
only that [ ‘wasn’t able to jump
“further, 1 guess. | figured maybe if
} could get my hands-on him I’d
feel better.” :
Cause of death in the May
murder has been fisted as airway’

obstruction. :

Kelly, who has a grade nine
education and has uscd marijuana
since he was 1! years old, had only
one previous criminal conviction,

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