![]() ![]() Nineteen-year-old Garth Iron pleaded guilty to kidnapping, possessing a weapon and uttering threats. The surveillance video showed that, after leaving the man in the hole, they returned to the theatre and gathered "around the counter in the lobby, put their hands in the middle of the group and then raise them up, resembling a group cheer." Officers pieced together what happened from video surveillance tapes at the theatre, Facebook messages and evidence in the car. He planned to contact his cousins, instead of police, to settle the score, but the RCMP officer who spotted him sent the matter to the courts. The victim crawled out of his hole, made it to a house and then caught a ride to a relative's home. They then took the blindfolded teen, dumped him in the hole, beat him with the shovel, tossed some dirt on him and then left.īut not before taking the sock out of his mouth, because they didn't want to leave any DNA evidence. They pulled over in a rural area six kilometres out of town. ![]() "He could also hear them talking about whether to drop him off at the hospital or dump him in a field." "On the way, they went through the Battleford Tim Horton's drive-thru and could hear them ordering smoothies and a triple triple," said the statement of facts. They then blindfolded the victim, bundled him into the trunk of the car and headed into the country. Then, around 11:30 p.m., they contacted the theatre manager - known as Queen B - and asked her to come and bring her car to the back of the theatre. They also tried to force him to eat glass. The men in animal masks stuffed a sock in his mouth and beat his legs with a hammer and wrench, tried to choke him out with a telephone wire, and worked on his hands and fingers with pliers. The victim was tied up in a chair, and then beaten and tortured over the next three hours. The victim was taken into the theatre basement one of the accused had access to the building. "They put a bag over his head and put him in the vehicle, taking him to a building where his hands and feet were bound." They put a bag over his head and put him in the vehicle. "A vehicle pulled up and three guys in animal masks got out," said the statement of facts. When the officer questioned him, the teen said that, earlier the previous day, he had been walking from the Don Ross Community Centre to North Battleford. CST, an RCMP officer came across a teen walking up 99th Street. Which is fitting, because much of the drama takes place in a movie theatre basement.Īn agreed statement of facts presented in North Battleford, Sask., provincial court earlier this month details what happened the night of June 4. It's a narrative that reads like a particularly violent Quentin Tarantino movie script. ![]()
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