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Top 10 News Stories Dec 25, 2015 / 5:00 am
Castanet is counting down the top stories of 2015, today is No. 7 – Neil Snelson was convicted and sentenced once again in the fatal beating of...
Kamloops Sep 16, 2015 / 4:00 pm
Family and friends of a 19-year-old woman who was strangled and beaten to death reacted angrily outside court in Kamloops after a judge sentenced her...
Kamloops Sep 16, 2015 / 12:03 pm
Neil Snelson has been handed an 11-year prison sentence for the October 1993 murder of Jennifer Cusworth in Kelowna. The sentence was handed down in a...
Kamloops Sep 11, 2015 / 3:55 pm
UPDATE 3:50 P.M. SEPT. 11 Neil Snelson is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday, Sept. 16 at 10:30 a.m. in Kamloops Surpreme Court. Snelson was...
Snelson trial Sep 10, 2015 / 4:20 pm
A man convicted twice for a Kelowna college student's 1993 death should be sentenced to 15 years in prison, says the Crown. Neil Snelson was found...
Kamloops Jul 7, 2015 / 7:45 pm
A Kelowna family will have to wait until September to find out whether the man convicted of killing their daughter will be back behind bars. Neil...
Kelowna Jun 17, 2015 / 8:22 am
A jury has once again found Neil George Snelson guilty of manslaughter in the 1993 killing of a Jennifer Cusworth – an Okanagan College student...
Kamloops Sep 4, 2014 / 11:51 am
A new trial date has been set for Neil Snelson, the man previously charged with killing a Kelowna teenager in 1993. Snelson will face trial for...
Kamloops Jun 4, 2014 / 3:40 pm
The mother of slain teenager Jennifer Cusworth is not happy the man convicted of killing her daughter is out on bail. Neil Snelson was granted bail...
Kamloops Jun 3, 2014 / 12:18 pm
A Kelowna man who is awaiting a new manslaughter trial has just been granted bail. Neil Snelson had already been convicted of manslaughter in the...
Kelowna Courthouse Apr 14, 2014 / 12:00 pm
Neil Snelson will be going to trial once again, but it won’t be in Kelowna. The new manslaughter trial into the death of Jennifer Cusworth will...
Kelowna Mar 10, 2014 / 3:59 pm
Lawyers representing Neil Snelson will bring forward an application to change the venue of his upcoming manslaughter trial when counsel reconvenes...
Kelowna Jan 6, 2014 / 11:15 am
A new trial has been ordered for a man convicted of killing a college student 20 years ago, and it will likely take place later this year. Neil...
Kelowna Dec 19, 2013 / 9:01 pm
British Columbia's highest court has ordered a new trial for a man convicted of killing a college student whose death remained a cold case for...
Kelowna Aug 18, 2012 / 3:00 pm
There was a Celebration of Life held on Saturday in memory of Jennifer Cusworth. The 19 year-old Cusworth was killed in October of 1993 after...
Kelowna Jan 3, 2012 / 11:45 am
Neil Snelson will be getting another day in court. Defence lawyer, Wade Jenson has filed an appeal with the BC Court of Appeal asking that...
Poll Dec 5, 2011 / 5:00 pm
"I'm not thrilled with it. I wanted life but I'll accept 15 years," says Jean Cusworth outside the courthouse. Shaking a little...
Kelowna Dec 3, 2011 / 11:08 am
Jean Cusworth hopes no family has to go through what her and her husband Terry have been through the last 18 years. The Cusworth's daughter,...
Kelowna Dec 2, 2011 / 5:20 pm
"I'm not thrilled with it. I wanted life but I'll accept 15 years," says Jean Cusworth outside the courthouse. Shaking a little and...
Kelowna Dec 1, 2011 / 3:00 pm
Video: Neil Snelson continues to maintain his innocence after being sentenced to 15 years in prison for the 1993 killing of Jennifer Cusworth....
Kelowna Nov 29, 2011 / 1:39 pm
Castanet's Kelly Hayes reports Neil Snelson will learn his fate Thursday. Snelson was found guilty of manslaughter in the October, 1993 death of...
Kelowna Nov 25, 2011 / 5:00 pm
In the wake of several recent high profile cases of women and girls being murdered in the context of sexualized violence, the Central Okanagan...
Kelowna Oct 13, 2011 / 4:42 pm
Terry and Jean Cusworth will have to wait a little while longer to learn the fate of the man convicted of killing their daughter Jennifer. Neil...
Kelowna Oct 7, 2011 / 3:41 pm
"Vibrant. Beautiful. Active." That's how Jean and Terry Cusworth remembered their daughter, Jennifer Cusworth, one day after Neil...
Kelowna Oct 6, 2011 / 12:00 pm
Singer, songwriter, father of four - Neil Snelson has been found guilty of manslaughter for the beating death of Jennifer Cusworth. After...
Kelowna Oct 4, 2011 / 7:00 am
Castanet's Kelly Hayes reports. The courtroom was packed well in advance of the presentation of final submissions in the first degree murder...
Kelowna Sep 29, 2011 / 2:47 pm
Castanet's Kelly Hayes reports. A crucial witness took the stand Thursday morning during the First Degree Murder trail of Neil Snelson....
Kelowna Sep 28, 2011 / 4:01 pm
Day two of Neil Snelson’s testimony covered: religion, telephone poles and a belt. The 44-year-old Kelowna man is charged with the 1993 murder...
Kelowna Sep 27, 2011 / 5:06 pm
Castanet's Kelly Hayes reports. Neil Snelson, charged with first degree murder in the death of Jennifer Cusworth, took the stand Tuesday in his...
Kelowna Sep 27, 2011 / 12:00 pm
Update Tuesday Sept. 27: Neil Snelson took the stand today as the defence begins putting on its case. A packed courthouse listened as Snelson...
Kelowna Sep 23, 2011 / 3:00 pm
The trial of Neil Snelson entered it's eighth day at the Kelowna court house Friday morning. The court heard testimony from three witness as the...
Kelowna Sep 22, 2011 / 1:36 pm
The woman married to Neil Snelson at the time of the murder of Jennifer Cusworth took the witness stand at his murder trial, Thursday morning....
Kelowna Sep 21, 2011 / 4:17 pm
Jennifer Cusworth told Lynette Carney she intended to walk home from a house party on Richter Street the morning of October 16, 1993. It may have...
Kelowna Sep 20, 2011 / 5:09 pm
Neil Snelson wept as he hugged his wife prior to the start of a lengthy two-and-a-half hour interview with police on the night of his arrest....
Letters Sep 16, 2011 / 5:00 am
I was recently summoned for jury duty this past week for the Jennifer Cusworth case. Weeks prior to this, I was also contacted by a sub-section of...
Kelowna Sep 15, 2011 / 1:29 pm
The trial of Neil Snelson continued in Kelowna court Thursday. The Kelowna father of four is charged with first degree murder in the murder of...
Kelowna Sep 14, 2011 / 1:26 pm
The jury has begun hearing the evidence in Neil Snelson's murder trial. Snelson is charged with the 1993 murder of OUC student Jennifer Cusworth....
Kelowna Sep 12, 2011 / 1:00 pm
Approximately 300 prospective jurors for the Cusworth murder case gathered in the Kelowna Court House Monday. Around noon a few of the potential...
Kelowna Aug 29, 2011 / 9:00 am
Neil Snelson is back in court Monday. The Kelowna father of four is charged with first degree murder in the 1993 murder of Jennifer Cusworth....
Kelowna Dec 16, 2010 / 4:00 pm
Kelowna RCMP may be close to resolving an historic homicide. RCMP Superintendent Bill McKinnon made the revelation Thursday while pleading his case to...
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