Updated Feb 1, 2010
Introducing the
West Shore's hottest celebrity family: the Brotherstons! A "pioneer" family made famous by rugged logger and municipal-councillor-turned-killer
Ken Brotherston, with help from sons
Ken Jr. and Greg. The three men faced second-degree murder charges in the brutal beating and strangling death of
Keith Taylor, a Colwood man with a fondness for cocaine, in front of his friends last May.
On Friday, January 29 2010, Ken Sr, Greg, and Ken Jr. were found not guilty by BC Supreme Court justice Janice Dillon. Reasons for judgement
here. (Caution, graphic content.)
According to cops, paramedics, and the defendant's testimony, Ken Sr. beat and strangled Taylor nearly to death while his sons prevented witnesses from interfering. Then the men put Taylor's body in Ken's black pickup truck and drove it to the West Shore RCMP detachment in Langford.
The brutal and brazen beating death shocked a community, most of whom are hearing the horrific details now for the first time.
So, what does it all mean, and why?
To answer that question, we've enlisted the
super sleuthing skills of WTF? secret agent
Totallycanadian, our code-named private investigator posing as an anonymous
CBC.ca commenter in Kelowna.
Totallycanadian reached the verdict before the trial even started:
It was a good and righteous killing.
you mess with the bull you get the horn.
i hope theses gentlemen get to go back to their families and resume their lives.
let me know where to send my twenty bucks in support of the brotherstons
UPDATE 1 from secret agent
Knotalone, who is also disguised as a mild-mannered
CBC.ca commenter:
To bad the guy died. It appears he may have tried to intimidate the wrong person.
We all know what would have happened had Ken Brotherston gone to the police and complained about the threat.
I would bet that he went over there to give Taylor a beating that he would not soon forget and would think of before he threatened someone's family again.
A lot of people would do the same.
You can threaten most men and even get into an altercation with them with no serious repercussions.
Threaten there family though and there protective instincts kick in.
Brotherston doesn't sound like the type of person who has spent his life beating on people, he must have thought the threat was serious.
DEAR SECRET AGENTS TOTALLYCANADIAN and KNOTALONE: Thank you for solving this murder! We will all rest easy knowing that if some oversized "pioneer" got offended and decided to
bash our brains out in front of our friends, it would be
TOTALLY RIGHTEOUS. Because that's what justice looks like, here on the West Shore.
Our secret agents have shown us that this is how a community SHOULD function. Might makes right. God bless, and
please don't kill us.
(PS - if you're throwing money around, we could really use the twenty bucks?)
UPDATE 2: More Brotherston supporters are wading in, with suggestions on
WHO ELSE should be savagely beaten to death, for good and not for evil!!
At
CBC.ca
gulfislands wrote:
Posted 2009/11/17 at 11:57 PM ET
Justice has been done. More people should look after things themselves, as the courts will not look after them
Via Craigslist:
Date: 2009-11-17, 4:37PM PST
Thank god they did us another favour, one less drug dealing scum that litters our streets thinking they are a street punk/thug, guess he finaly met his match. f*** off you little puke. You wreaked havoc on the kids and druggies in town wich leads to the breakins beatings muggings and drug trade.
Good for the brotherstones for settling it once and for all wich the courts dont have the balls to do. Now hopefully the courts are as screwed up with the brotherstones as they are with all the other drug scum and they basicaly walk away, did they take a life, maybe, but none worth much and was more destructive to society than any minute benifit they gave. Good riddence i say, let others like the brotherstones clean up victoria and the westshore
Lock up the women and children -- looks like the good old boys on the Wild West Shore are getting ready to start a rampage! Let's call it the Street Justice Honour Killings League of Gentlemen rampage. It will be good and righteous and everyone can join in and be a hero.
From the WTF? comments:
Anonymous said...
WTF?WTF; A RIGHTEOUS MURDER?? That would only be one if it involved several internet "reporters".
Ahem! Us internet "reporters" have politely and officially asked
NOT to be killed (see above) during the Street Justice Honour Killings League of Gentlemen rampage. The deal is
velvet handcuffs, not baseball bats, OK?
Please, get with the program.
Hey, so -- everything's just fine up at Bear Mountain Resort. Yes, we know they had to close the real estate sales office in Langford. But it's OK! Len's cutting costs -- by reducing sales and advertising and customers and staff and revenue. Lean and mean, that's the new Bear Mountain machine!
