Man Charged In Death Of Wife Ordered Held

VICTORIA, B.C.

A Victoria-area man charged in the killing and beheading of his wife made a brief court appearance yesterday.

Doug Guyatt, 46, of Langford was ordered held at the Wilkinson Road Jail until June 24, when a date for a preliminary hearing will be set. Guyatt, who is charged with second-degree murder, was arrested Wednesday after an 11-month police investigation in the death of Shannon Guyatt, 34.

Guyatt reported finding his wife's severed head in a plastic bag in a drainage ditch outside their home last June. She had disappeared 11 days earlier after leaving her Highways Ministry job in Victoria. The Guyatts were in the process of separating when she

disappeared.