There are new developments in the lead-up to the case against Cory Sater, the Coquitlam man charged with killing Charlene Reaveley and Lorraine Cruz in an alleged hit-and-run crash last February.
On Monday, a Port Coquitlam court heard that Sater's girlfriend at the time of the horrific Feb. 19 crash that also severely injured Cruz's boyfriend, Paulo Calimahin, has now asked that Sater be barred from contacting her.
Crown prosecutor Vittorio Toselli and Sater's defence lawyer, Tony Serka, agreed Monday to amend Sater's bail conditions, adding her name to the long list of people with a no-contact order against Sater as part of his conditions for release from custody in March.
That list already includes the families of Reaveley, Cruz and Calimahin, as well as at least one other person who cannot be named under order of a publication ban on the case.
Sater, 37, is out on bail facing 10 charges, including two counts of impaired driving causing death, one count of impaired driving causing bodily harm and failing to remain at the scene of an accident.
On Monday, the court was to assign a trial date but that decision was once again adjourned because police have still not provided a collision scene reconstruction report to Sater's lawyer.
The report from the RCMP's Integrated Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Service (ICARS) was allegedly completed some time ago by its lead investigator on the case but was later altered under a peer review process, according to the lawyers for both sides.
"The author was directed to make a number of changes to its material," Serka told the court, adding that he wants those changes reversed and he wants to see all versions of the reconstruction report submitted.
"I want them all, all of the reports, " Serka told The Tri-City News following the hearing Monday. "Because you make changes and then it becomes somebody else's report."
Toselli told the court that the Crown shares in Serka's frustrations with the delay in proceedings but added that releasing the report without the peer alterations would be akin to releasing a "first draft" report instead of a final copy.
Madame Justice T. Alexander ordered the matter back to Port Coquitlam court on Sept. 21, saying, "I'm always concerned when there's been 10 appearances and counsel is not ready to fix a date."
To that, Serka replied: "If [the report] was completed in March, I would have fixed a date already."
Reaveley, 30, was struck and killed trying to help Cruz, 26, and Calimahin near the intersection of Lougheed Highway and Pitt River Road.
