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SEPTEMBER 25, 2014 | Volume 27 No. 114
CELLSEX TRIAL ENDS TIM PETRUK
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Nancy Bepple quit council in March, citing a health issue. Yesterday (Sept. 24), Bepple announced her candidacy in the Nov. 15 civic election, while refusing to comment on what compelled her to leave office.
Bepple wants back on city council ANDREA KLASSEN STAFF REPORTER andrea@kamloopsthisweek.com
Nancy Bepple is confident she can stay the course for four years if voters decide to return her to her former council seat this November. Bepple resigned from Kamloops city council in March of this year, cutting short her second term in office due to what she said were chronic health issues. Her press conference on the steps of
city hall yesterday (Sept. 24) was the first time she has discussed her departure with the media. “I had some health issues, but what’s important is I’m back, I’m healthy and I’m here to work for the people of Kamloops,” Bepple said, refusing to elaborate on what specific health issue compelled her to quit council. Further questions from media on her break from council were met with variations of the same answer.
Bepple said she believes she can manage her health issues for the duration of the new four-year municipal-government term. “What’s more important is I want to do the things I was always doing,” she said. “I talk about some big issues, but it’s really the small things, like helping a senior get their yard waste removed by city crews or getting a path graded up to Oak Hills so someone in a wheelchair can get up that path.” See BEPPLE, page A7
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Police witnesses who offered contradicting evidence about what they were doing when two intoxicated women engaged in sex acts in a Kamloops RCMP jail cell more than four years ago are “at the same time blowing and sucking” when their testimony is compared to video surveillance, a judge has heard. Crown prosecutor Winston Sayson made that argument in his closing submissions in RCMP Cpl. Rick Brown’s trial in B.C. Supreme Court on one count of breach of trust by a public officer. “When you put two and two together, it is four,” Sayson said. “That is, they were there being amused. It is the mere watching for a purpose other than the public good that makes this a criminal offence.” Brown was watch commander in the early-morning hours of Aug. 18, 2010, making him the de facto head
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Kamloops RCMP Cpl. Rick Brown is charged with breach of trust in connection with the August 2010 sex-in-cells incident in the Battle Street detachment.
of the Kamloops RCMP detachment. Brown was in charge when two drunk female prisoners began engaging in sex acts in a jail cell and, according to the Crown, he invited a number of other officers to view the sex acts with him on a closedcircuit monitor. “The actions of the accused in failing to stop them, because he was watching them, is what causes this case to cross into the criminal realm,” Sayson said. See DEFENCE, page A4
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