Penticton

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Andrew McAdam

A preliminary inquiry date for the 19-year-old charged with second degree murder in the death of a Penticton teen at a graduation bush party last June is expected to be set Wednesday at the Penticton Court House.

The date to determine when the inquiry will be held was determined at a focus hearing Monday afternoon before Judge Gale Sinclair at the courthouse.

Sinclair said it would probably be late fall or early winter before it could actually took place.

Other evidence from the focus hearing was placed under a publication ban.

Jamie Wolanski is accused of stabbing 16-year-old Andrew McAdam at the bush party in the Carmi area,  attended by about 100 people, on June 17, 2011. The two were believed to be friends on Facebook.

More recently, Wolanski, who had been out on $75,000 bail with several conditions attached, was arrested Jan. 20 when a car he was a passenger in was pulled over and he was found to be in possession of items he wasn’t supposed to have. He spent the weekend in jail but was released the following Monday.

At the time Penticton RCMP Sgt. Rick Dellebuur said the crown had decided there was not enough evidence to proceed with charges.

Linda Childs, Andrew McAdam’s mother, who attended the hearing along with several of her son’s friends, was upset that the inquiry will not take place sooner.

“It’s not fair,” she said, as she stood clutching a picture of her son, a Penticton hockey player, outside the courthouse. “I don’t have Andrew at home, but this kid is out running around and was actually arrested for breach of his bail conditions.”

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