Estranged wi
launches suit

History of
assaults
alieged

BY SRENT MUDRY
Contributing Writer

THE wife of a sus-
pended North Van-
couver RCMP officer
claims her husband
beat her for two years,
starting when she was
pregnant in 1993.

Steve Melling, 30, was
convicted in February of one
count of assaulting his
estranged wife Lesley Jeffrey.
He was also found guilty of
threatening.

The | threats involved
Jeffrey and her brother, both
B.C. court sheriffs,

Melling was given a condi-
tional discharge and one year
of probation.

The assault and threats

took piace i in May and June of

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In a civil lawsuit, Jetfrey
now claims that Melling
assaulted her on a number of
occasions prior to the inci-
dents of a year ago, Jeffrey
claims the first assault was in
June 1993 when she was preg-
nant.

“The defendant struck the
plaintiff on the arms and body
leaving bruises and hand
marks clearly visible as: well
as kicks in the stomach which
left bruising on the right side.”
the suit claims,

Jeffrey claims the next time
her husband beat her was
more than a year later in
September 1994. This time, at
three in the moming, Melling
allegedly “kicked and pushed
the plaintiff, bunging her head
into the night table as well as
kicking her and grabbing her
by the throat.”

Jeffrey claims Melling thes
choked her, and. the alleged
assault left bruises on her
neck, head, upper arms and
legs,

The suit notes that the day
after this second incident,
RCMP Cpi. E.K. McColl

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interviewed Jeffery and made
notes of the assault.

The investigating officer
noted the bruisings and noted
the fact that Jeffery chose not
to lay a formal police com-
plaint.

The third alleged assault
took piace 10 days later. when
Jeffery received bruises on her
head, arms and back as well as
scrapes on the back of her leg.

The — suit
Meiling insisted he could not
afford to ieave the marriage
unless Jeffery paid off his pre-
marriage debts.

Melling allegedly told her
he would leave her alone if she
paid off these debts.

The final assault, the one
for which Melling was
charged and convicted, came
on May 26, 1995.

Jeffery claims that as a
result of the 1995 assaults and
threats, she has suffered
injuries and damages, includ-
ing loss of income and oppor-
tunity to earn income.

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