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sexual ideas’? about his brother’s wife.

counsel Greg Weber
painted that picture of David
Alexander Srow, 38, during a
hearing beld in North Vancouver
provincial court.

Snow was found guilty liste year
of sexual assault causing bodily
harm, armed robbery, attempting
to choke another person, and
confinement against will.

Crown counsel is asking the
court tu declare Snow a dangerous
offender. He will be sentenced on
the charges following a ruling by
Judge Jerome Paradis an the

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News Reporter

dangerous offender application.

If Snow is declared a dangerous
offender he could serve an in-
definite jail term.

In a closing statement to
Paradis, Weber read from state.
ments supplicd by Snow's mother
and sister.

Weber argued that Snow's
previous testimony should not be

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belicved by the court, nor should
a l4-pave statement written by
Snaw oa April 5 and entered into
evidence this week.

In that statement Snaw said he
has ‘tgreal remorse’’ for the vie.
lent crimes he has committed.

“David Snow was not a
believable witness,” said Weber.

He also read from a written
statement supplied by Snow's
mother in which shes Snow
thought of his sister-in-law Chris
Snow, the wife of his older
brother Victor, sexually.

“David had all these strange
sexual ideas of Chris. Vic and 1
know David needs help,’ said
Snaw’s mother,

with pornography, odd sexual ideas

women. He didn't have any
friends, other than business
assaciates,’’ Snow's sister said.

In his written statement, Snow
said he and his sister were never
close and that she was ‘almost
impossible to control” at age 15
and 16.

He also admitted that he gave
his sister a) pornegraphic video
tape as u “joke.”

But Weber told the court that
Snow was consumed with por-
nographic magazines and tapes.

“For a person to have commit-
ted the offences that David Snow
commited, there would in all tike-
lihood, have been a history of
pornographic material."

But in his written statement,
Snow said his brother Victor and
his sister-in-law had ‘tbeen em-
barrassing me for years.

“Thad known for several years
that my brother and his wife had
what world be termed an open
marriage Where each was allowed
total freedom as far as sexual
purtners.**

Weber also read from a state:
ment supplied by Snow's. sister,
Carol Ann, in which she described
her brother as being anti-social.

“Pooalways knew there was
something wrong with him, He
never seemed to have a girlfriend
that ] knew of.

“Yo chink he had a problem with

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