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Friday, April 15, 2011
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Homicide
Witness tells of stabbing
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An accusation of theft turned into a violent ordeal that led to a Langley man’s death, a judge heard. by Matthew Claxton and Jennifer Saltman mclaxton@langleyadvance.com
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It’s one of the icons of London, a moving, automotive symbol recognized worldwide. And Ian Newby of Aldergrove owns three. Newby will bring the best of his double-decker buses to the St. George’s Day British Motoring Show, the sixth annual presentation of classic British cars by the Langley Area
Mostly British Motoring Club. The bright-red former London bus has been a labour of love for Newby for years. “I always wanted one, I think every Brit has always wanted to own a double-decker bus, a London taxi, an English telephone booth, and a pub,” he said. Now he owns three of the buses, three London cabs, a phone booth, and a re-creation of a pub built into a barn on his property. His primary bus, the one which will appear in the car show, has a long and strange history that brought it to British Columbia.
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The girlfriend of Kyle Barber broke down in uncontrollable sobbing on the witness stand, while testifying about a violent home invasion and stabbing that killed Barber. Barber died after two alleged Red Scorpions associates burst into the home he and his girlfriend shared in Langley, at the corner of 244th Street and Fraser Highway on March 28, 2009. Albert Jacob Jackman, 24, and Gregory Michael Barrett, 32, are charged with first-degree murder and manslaughter, respectively. The second day of their trial took place Tuesday in New Westminster Supreme Court. Crown prosecutor Christopher McPherson led “It looked like he was Barber’s girlfriend through the events of the day before in pretty bad shape the attack. On March 27, when I got there.” she noticed a ladder leaning up against a building next Const. Les Betker door, leading to an open window. She did not know the people living next door, the woman testified. McPherson also asked her about the couple’s marijuana grow operation in the basement, which she said was under 200 plants. She testified that she and Barber smoked a lot of pot, and that they sold it to some friends and co-workers. She owned a registered shotgun that was kept under their bed, in case their home was invaded by thieves looking for the grow op. On March 28, she and Barber came home from visiting an event at the Tradex and were watching TV in bed after dinner when a pickup truck pulled into the yard. Two men were at the door. “‘It’s your neighbours,’” the woman recalls one of the men saying. “‘Somebody broke into my house while I was gone.’” When she opened the door a few inches, the shorter “I went for the gun.” man pushed his way in, folTrial witness lowed by the taller man. Prosecutors say the shorter man was Jackman, the taller Barrett. “I knew something was wrong then, and I just fell to the ground crying,” the woman said. Jackman accused Barber of robbing him. “‘You took my s---, my $50,000 worth of s---,’” the woman recalled Jackman saying. The duo pushed Barber and his girlfriend into their bedroom, where Jackman choked Barber, she said. “I went for the gun,” the woman testified. She grabbed it from under the bed, but couldn’t stop the taller man, apparently Barrett, from wrestling it out of her grip. “I just kept saying that we didn’t do it,” the woman said. She offered the two men half a pound of pot – worth about $1,200 – and a few thousand dollars in cash they had in a small lock box, but said Jackman laughed and said it wasn’t enough. “When that wasn’t enough I told them we had more downstairs,” she said.
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