- Japanese
Student visits
sex offender

Anina Marie D'Angelo

News Reporter
dangelo@nsie WON

CONVICTED sex offender *

_ Daniel Bristow says he had

“visits’ witha female Japanese
student.

But Bristow denies the ‘student
lived with hin ar his Upper Highland
home, a! place where notorious child

sex offender Robert Roy Owens s still
visits.

I don't know where she lives,”
said Bristow, 73. :

Atleast two of Bristow’s neighbors

» have called: the police ,with’-concerns
wut the. Japanese student's ‘safety,
bur privacy laws prevent the ‘police:

Ȣ from telling her that Bristow isa con-

victed sex offender.

«Area resident Greig Cameron said

“rhe was shocked ‘to ‘see! the ‘student
jump out of Bristow's van a week ago
in“ the parking lot near, Cleveland
Dam.

“ 'Canieron approached the student
after she took a picture of the dam.”

Cameran ‘said she spoke. English

poorly, She indicated she took English
classes and went to school on. Howe

oo Street. She said: she: was ‘staying “on

©) Canterbury 0
“se “She'didn'r say who she. was’ stay

ing with, but obviously’ she was riding.

: with him (Bristow),” said Cameron. .
Bristow lives at 4456 Canterbury”
: Cres. He caused a figror in the neigh-
borhood two years ‘azo when it jas
clearned .thar_ pedophile Owens had
moved ‘in’with him after; being *
released from jail-::

“Owens served an entir year jail

term for sexually assaulting three girls «.

age. 6.to-11, One his victims devel-"

oped” genital. ‘herpes, Owens was: ”
The:

“denied. ‘early. prison release.
“ National Parole Board concluded thar...
‘Owens, 47; was.a pedophile who
‘would likely ré-oflend, :
© After his jail term, Owens moved
“in with Bristow. <.
-« Bristow Was; convicted of Sex
“crimes against young: males. Bristow,
was a” former ‘Sentinel high school
acher.

‘Both: convicted ‘sex, offenders’ are:
fs ander no restrictions or court condi-
oS) tions. ‘
Bristow said on, Th rsday’ that the“

“RCMP:

: “address” wa
" homestay residences:

‘student is 25 1 years kf and is return:
Ing to fapaid today:

“She looks’ v young,
know how Orientals Joak,”
_ Bristow. :

He said: the stdaient occasionally
Visited him. Bristow. sand he. didn’t
know if she went. to
‘Vancouver. Bristow said he was aware
ofa woman living in the neighbor-
“hood who called the RCMP when the
-studenr came to visit one, daw |
— its nor her business... [ts all
been checked Gut and the RCMP are
fully aware of it, We have their Hless-
ings,” said Bristow.

Bristow said he didn't have-to wive
an account of who visits his house He
said Owens lives in Langley ind visits

said

~ sometimes. Neighbors report Owens

drives a Porsche “now and: is. at
Bristow's residence “an avefullor.” +

“Dim tired of these gossip mongers
and vigilantes,” said Bristow, who said
he has fived in the community for 33
years and “appreciated” being ‘left
alae by the press.

The News. has learned that the,
Japanese exchange, “student - from,

Tokyo has. lived with Bristow for five
" months. Owens also lived at the
Canterbury’, Crescent: house during
that time, The. student was: small in
stature and could easily
be ‘mistaken as-a-child,
She ‘was: spotted with
‘Owens in Bristow's van
‘in carly October.
Police were called. |
North © Vancouver,
Const. Tom
Seaman’ said. that. police
‘found no illegal activity:
after investigating < an‘
October. complaint at”
> Bristow's houses eo 0:
Seaman. said thar:
police officers could nor’
inform the Japanese ste
v dent: oF Bristow’s and |
Owens’s tal. criminal :
thistory.as it would have
contravened “the federal :
Privacy Act 1) ;
The News car
several’ English Jang
schools on Howe Street.
None of the schools said
Bristow” or -Bristow's
amony their”.

Vancouver English,

Centre president “Ken

Gardner, said homes for
his students are screened
“and visits ‘are m: de. He
said ‘that ‘files are“mai
tained -on. host’ famili

“with” ongoing © evalua:

tions made by students,

. Persian Ardabil.

You:

school in :

Gardner said single person hones
are not discriminated ayainat, He said
students. request all sorts’ of home
arrangements,

“Norinally a young Japanese. girl
would not feel eymilortable in a situa:
tien tke that and. would probably
request amore typical fimiy situation
with aemom_ and dad and children.”
said Gardner.

Gardner said thata student would
be moved immediately if there was ‘a
safety: “doubt? avothe | Canadian
home.’ i

Alison Bell-lrving,. of North
Vancouver-based > B.C. Homestay
Services, said conducting a criminal
record check of every homestay fanii-
ly is nota practical measure.

tee. thatall the people connected ta
“the hame would be checked. Onee a
faniliy. had paid for a criminal ‘check,
they would expect to have a student.

A homestay office may nor find the,

family appropriate for students despite
a clean criminal record check.
Bell-Irving said she was concerned
to §
the. News.

“That's exactly the ph ace where a

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Persian ribal :
“Persian. Tribal.” m

She said that there was no euaran-

a homestay classified section in’

Liquid g jas plani-
proposal panned

LIONS Bay residents were to meet with representatives of
Westcoast Gas Services Thursday evening to discuss a pro--
posed liquefied natural gas (LING) facility ar MeMab Creek.

Lions Bay Mayor Brenda Troughton hay come outs inging against the
proposed $120 million Tacitity for the Sunshine Coast:

Subject to government approval, the project will be designed to fiquety up
10 16 million cubie-teer of gas per day. Up to three billion cubic feet of gas
“coiild:be stored at the sites / me

The site is located approximately 7.5 kilometres inland from Howe Sound
20 kilometres ‘away from Lions Bay and appro imately: 30. kilometres. from’
Sunset Beach in West Vancouver, Westetast Gas Services Inc., 4 subsidiary of
Westcoast Energy Ine. would like to begin construction early NEXT year and
begin operations, by the summer of 2000, :

Plans call for the facility to sit on a 24:heetare parcel of land. The s stor Be
tank will. be 74 metres wide and 52 metres tall: The tank will-b
four white aircraft warning stvobe lights, which Westcoast Energy says will be -
used only on foggy days. LNG stored at the site will be taken frony gas fields:
in northeastern B.C, ‘The gas will be used by residential and commercial cus-.
tomers, Up to 300 million cubic feet cf gas will flow into the Vancouver Island
Pipeline daily trom the facilin. : “

Broughton said the facility will be visible to altiiost anvone who has a ‘ight:
‘line (rom their property up Howe Sound between Anvil and Gambier islands
“The tank will be the circumference of the Agrodume. and as-higly as a-16
storey building: This project will corrupt the direction of the totnsm indus-
try.in this’ portion of Howe: Sound. Tourism i fs ash: billion industry i in this
proving. » she | said, :
The meeting with residents was to Hake place after the News deadline:

: care, ‘rr Michel Becker,

ANCOUVER

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