Driver dies in rollover

A 33-year-old woman died at the scene of a single-vehicle rollover Thursday morning on Highway 97, just north of Bear Lake. RCMP, who were called to the site at 8 a.m., said a witness told police her late-model pickup truck rolled several times down an embankment leaving the woman, who was the driver and sole occupant, trapped inside. Her name was not released. Speed was believed to have been a contributing factor, RCMP said. NEW WESTMINSTER (CP) — A B.C. man has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 17 years after pleading guilty to seconddegree murder. Raymond Caissie was sentenced Friday in B.C. Supreme Court for the September 2014 slaying of 17-year-old Serena Vermeersch. Her body was found along railway tracks in Surrey, B.C., a day after she was reported missing. Both the Crown attorney and Caissie’s defence lawyer, Troy Anderson, had recommended the 17-year term at an earlier sentencing hearing. Anderson said outside the court on Friday that Caissie’s guilty plea was the strongest indication of remorse that a person can have. Caissie had been released from prison just a year earlier. The RCMP issued a warning about his release, calling him a “high-risk sexual and violent offender.” He had served his entire 22 year sentence for a violent 1991 sexual assault and kidnapping, and parole documents said board members believed he was likely to commit another offence causing death or serious harm. Eight years of parole board documents were released after the charges were laid in Vermeersch’s death.