rRiBAY
September 20, 1996

Tourist
discovers
dead man

By Michael Becker

News Editor

A tourist trying to get a
good scenic shot of
Horseshoe Bay at a
pullout along Highway
99 on Wednesday stum-
bled upon a less pretty
picture: the body of a

-dead man.

West Vancouver Police were
called to the scene, two kilometres
(1.2 miles) north of Horseshoe Bay,
just after 10:30 am. The body was
found six to cight metres (19 to 26
feet) from the highway pullout.

Sgt. Barry Nickerson said police
are treating the death as suspicious.

An autopsy was scheduled for
yesterday. To press time the identity
of the man was unknown.

There were no obvious signs of
injury, according to Nickerson.

A vehicle found parked at the

_ pullout was seized and towed away.

It was later found to belong to
two men who had been spending
the day fishing in the area.

| Multiple charges
i laid in fatal 1995
car collision

By Anna Marie D'Angelo
News Reporter

AS many as 2) witnesses
will be called in a North
Vancouver case of
impaired driving causing
death.

Kraysztof  Konik, 4. of
neouver, was charged with
impaired driving causing the death
of Wai Kin Wong on Nov. 9, 1995,
Konik was charged with the offence about
civbt months afer Wong died.
“The 83 vearotd Vancouver grandmother
died-in the 3700-black of Delbrook Avenue
~The senior was in the back seatefa car carreiny
ix members of her tamily.
Konik allegedly drove van inte phe
ancoming north Lang of the read. calling sith

Nowe pl

EMERGENCY workers at fatal 1995 Delbrook crash. w

Wong's car. Konik is abo charged with impaired
driving. causing bodily harm to the car's driver and
Worg’s son, Moon Tong Sta, then 30, fis wile,
Caralyne Kip Ming bee Sind? and their children
tick Shur Per Sing, and Selina Shu Mun Sia, $3.

Yheir 19 vear old san was hoa the car

The six vearokd gitk was taken to BCs
Children’s Hospital where she was treated: tor
internal injuries and broken bones She remand

soren elt
Bs

in hospi tor do be 2) mantis
according tee the ui
Vancouver ROMP.

Police said the sax vear old was
sitting on ber modiee’s lap ia the
front seat oof the Plvaauth
Sundance athe time of the 9:30
pan, enash.

Komik tives additional charges
of dangerous driving caustin
death and bodih harm et che
fanuly members.

Aocharge of dina with a
Klood alcohol fevel greater than
AOS war alse Land,

On Wednesday, Kemk's
lawyer Michach Richard) Duan
estimated the tril would take one
k. Duna sad there are a pos
sible 21 Crown witnesses tn the

hoto Brad Ledwidge

cane

Konitk stood beside fis liwver ane did not sas

during his beer court appearance. “The

aise was adjourned to October when a tnald te
ity be set.

Konik suttered facial aid throariyuries at the
chsh. Ele wes treated at fies. Gate TP fospind

Atthe Give of the crash Rontk was working in
the Upper Dethrouk arson J OPUR HOR pod

Seely

News photo Terry Pelers

WEST Vancouver Police remove the body of a man found near Highway 99 just north of Horseshoe Bay on Wednesday.

Derrick drops
mayor's race

DERRICK Humphrey
has derailed his own
mayoral train.

The S2-vearold Humphreys, a
four term: West Vancouver mover
betore he was defeated in the 1986
mumeipal election by Don Lanskail,
had initially announced last week
that he would seek wicction as the
mascipality’s nuayvor this
November,

But ina surprise move this week
he withdrew Ins candidacy

Haumphress had previousty ind
cated that he would) consider run
Hing tor omaver i ecumbent fark
Sager did not run.

Sager anmeunced Monday night
that be would not seek adhird term
as the municipabity’s mayor.

But on Wednesday, Hiimplireys
said he himself had devided to with:
draw from the maver’s race

He cited family considerauans as
the man reason for his change of
heart. Humphreys said, however,
that he wall seek at sent on West
Vancouver council

Lemuathy Reashaw, Manag

Pain

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