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Soaween the youth and Noel
Nansen, 18. of North Vancouver.

Another male hit the accused
youth with a beer bottle over the
head which caused a bleeding cut.
according to the judge.

“Then he went into an uacontrol-
lable rage that persisted until the
aggravated assault.” said Paradis.

The youth left the party and went
te a Subway restaurant where he
was heard to make threats over the
phone,

With five of his buddies. he
returned to the gathering. The
accused youth was carrying a long
solid metal bar, another youth car-
tied a large knife and two other
friends carried a machete each, said
Paradis.

Swatridge and the beer-botile
thrower were backed into a corner
room. The beer-bottle thrower
escaped out a window. Swatridge
was severely injured.

Paradis said Swatridge had lost
the sense of taste and smell. He had
suffered a concussion. He hud at
least 46 stitches to his head and face
including seven stitches under each
eye. He also had to have plastic
Surgery and surgery to reconstruct
his nasal passage, said the judge.

Paradis said the accused teenag-
er’s behavior problem had been
documented in a pre-disposition
court report in 1992 when he was |!
years old.

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Paradis said that “macho postur-
ing” has changed over the yeurs
where “more after: than nota
youth will recruit a number of his
friends so that the odds are over-
whelming in his fiver,

The judge said that these: types
of conflicts include “excess num-
bers.” wand the lack ef con-
sideration about the consequences
to victims.

Crown jawver Mike Brundrett
had asked fer the maximum sen-
tence under the Young Offenders
Act — two years in secure custody.

An adult, age 18 and over, can be
sentenced toa maximum 14 years in
jail for aggravated assault.

Ferbey had asked for a one-year
custody sentence.

The youth quickly left the court
room and exited through the prison-
er’s door after the sentencing.

He also pleaded guilty to pos-
sessing a dangerous weapon in con-
nection with the September inci-
dent. Two other youths and one
adult have been charged in connec-
tion with the Lynn Valley incident.
The adult, Ali Alamdari, 18, of
North Vancouver, is charged with
aggravated assault.

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