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itfbune 30000 copies vol 3 no a metroland community newspaper saturday february 7 1987 64 pages 25 cents court reserves appeal judgment a decision is expected within the next few weeks on whether a former whitchurchstouffville concert band member will have to stand another trial in the sex slaying of schoolgirl christine jessop the ontario court of appeal re served judgment on the case thursday following 1 v4 days of argument prompted by the crowns contention that guy paul morins 1986 acquittal resulted from serious legal errors mr morin now 27 was found not guilty of firstdegree murder by an ontario supreme court jury last february the jury was given a com pletely distorted picture crown prosecutor david fairgrieve told a panel of three judgesat osgoode hall wednesday the trial judges instructions to the jury constitute a serious and fun damental error that prejudiced the case the 9yearold jessop girl dis appeared from her family home in queensville next door to the morin residence on oct 3 of 1984 her mutilated body was found nearly three months later in a wooded area north of uxbridge twp mr morin was charged on april 22 1985 following a lengthy joint investigation by the york and durham regional police forces he was in ballantrae en route to band practice at stouffville dist secondary school at the time of his arrest the crown attorneys office contends that trial judge mr jus tice mcleod craig erred when he told jury members to ignore psychiatric evidence unless they first decided the accused had actually committed the crime during a highlypublicized fiveweek trial in london ont psychiatric experts testified that mr morin was a deeply sick schizophrenic who was one of a small group of people with char acteristics enabling him to com mit a sexkilling but defence lawyer clayton ruby described mr morin as a quiet queensville musician who happened to be quietly schi zophrenic in his final submis sion he urged the jury not to con fuse craziness with guilt during thursdays appeal pro ceedings mr ruby was denied the opportunity to introduce new psychiatric evidence suggesting mr morin is actually far less like ly to kill than the average person population target rises stouffvilles muchdiscussed population target has been re vised upward allowing for the urban communitys present size to as much as triple by the year 2000 meeting incommittee oh tues day planning advisory commit tee members decided to set total urban population totals at 20000 to the end of the century a town motion includes a related request for the region of york to under take a study to provide water and sewage capacity to accommodate this figure the present urban defined area presently houses about 7500 people with existing servic ing allocation available up to a total of 10000 residents ward 6 councillor jim sanders objected to the planned increase because he feels such population growth could jeopardize stouffvil les smalltown flavor my concern is based on the feeling there is still a place for small communities he said i think with setting this figure were just destroying that aspect of life in the community of stouff ville planning committee chairman wilf morley spoke in favor of the move calling it a step in the right direction i dont think we can sit back and hold back the ward 5 coun cillor said in reference to future growth york region had requested the municipality provide information on its realistic future plans for population growth explained town planner michael saunders bell ringers members of the whitevale chimes a group of english bell ringers hold lip part of their threeoctave 40beli set front row 1 to r glenda bailey heather milne elaine litherland donna bailey middle row andrea schoon shelly nicholson back row allen litherland ayshea banyard ruth garden jen nifer mackinnon see story page 44 sjoerd wittevcen whats inside margret davies feels fit at nearly 70a18