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"A Family Tradition for 131 Years" Tears punctuate testimony | by woman at robbery trial | By John B. McClelland - Port Perry Star The ex-fiance of Mitchiel "Mick" McArthur says she lied under oath at a previous hearing about whether McArthur told her to lie to the police about his whereabouts the night the Bank of Montreal in Port Perry was robbed and five persons wounded by gunfire. Margaret Wilkinson made the admis- sion to Crown Attorney Michael Hill at the end of her long and at times confusing testimony at the trial of McArthur and his 31 year old brother Angus, in Whitby courthouse on Monday. Wilkinson was living in Kingston with Mitchiel McArthur as his fiance at the time of the bank robbery and shoot- ings Oct. 20, 1994 and was three months pregnant with his child at that time. She told the court on Monday she is no longer his fiance, but they remain friends. In response to a question from Crown Attorney Hill on Monday, Wilkinson said McArthur told her that the day and evening of the robbery he was at his mother's, and was also looking for her parents' home in a rural area outside Kingston. But she said she can't remem- ber when he told her that. She said she came home from shopping about 9 p.m. Oct. 20, 1994 and McArthur was not there. She went to bed an hour later. When she woke up a few hours later, he was in bed, she testified. Earlier testimony by a Kingston police officer indicated McArthur's red Camaro car was not at 348 Mack St. at 12:06 Cae ¥ HHE THE HHH ssa {hI Pe 1 Nw 1H | 3] - . HHH "1s 2 4) | on our great selection of womens' bathing suits and BALTEX, CHRISTINA by SOLARE and latest spring 1997 styles! PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, February 25, 1997 -3 - Eas a.m. that night, but was there at 3:37 a.m. the morning after the Port Perry incidents. Wilkinson, called as a Crown witness, told court on Monday that she was charged with obstructing police by saying McArthur was at home the night of the robbery, and by telling her 11-year old daughter Anna to lie as to McArthur's whereabouts. She later pleaded guilty to the charge, was given a suspended sen- tence and probation for two years. Several times during questioning by Hill and cross examination by McArthur's lawyer Cindy Wasser, Wilkinson broke down in tears and Justice Harry LaForme was forced to call a recess to let her regain her compo- sure. She and her daughter Anna were in the apartment at 348 Mack St. with McArthur when he was arrested at 8 o'clock the morning after the robbery by heavily armed police including members of the Tactical Squad. In a voice barely audible in the court- room, she said she feared for her safety, that of her daughter and McArthur's that morning, and that was why she lied to police She said weapons were pointed at her and Anna, one with a "red light" that lit up on her daughter's chest and forehead. | And under questioning from lawyer : CHRIS HALL / PORT PERRY STAR Cindy Wasser, Wilkinson told how she HELPING HANDS: Students at Immaculate Conception Catholic School was held overnight in a cell at Police were given an opportunity on Feb. 19 to do something usually forbdden - paint HQ in Oshawa without a mattress or on the school's walls. Riley Paxton, a five-year-old senior kindergarten stu- TurntoPage9 dent, learns that hands are for helping, not hurting, in an afternoon activity. : - Yi "TON | (= rrr TIATTITTEL B J 2134. GST AND PST -; | SAVE THE GST | AND PST on all our new 1997 kids bathing suits 1H cover-ups by ~H 1 1 1] il AND BLUSH in the iy CHRISTINA In sizes 2 to 16 - ha "f nl oi as V7 YN >) sale ends March 9, 1997 BCIK'S ounrwinrer crane i rin Sines T8M1 SALE CONTINUES [OS Queen St, Port Perry 985-2521 | 8) TO 50% 0) Quality &