Tree Assassin Spared Punishment
An interior designer who admitted to poisoning trees on the edge of Stanley Park to improve her view will avoid a criminal record after her lawyer argued the “coast to coast humiliation” she has suffered is punishment enough.
“The public has denounced her conduct much more than the court could,” Judge Ellen Gordon said in handing June Matheson, 72, an absolute discharge after she pleaded guilty Thursday to killing the trees so she could get a better view of English Bay.
“The public outcry in this case had a remarkable denunciatory effect.”
Crown attorney Ralph Keefer told the provincial court judge that Matheson‘s act was “selfish in the extreme” and carefully planned, and for that she should at least be fined on the mischief charge she faced.
Source: The Globe and Mail.
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