MEN PLEAD GUILTY IN DEATH OF DEALER

Killed After Drug Sale Turns Ugly, Trial Told

Adrian Huber was a Kensington Market drug dealer known to be a violent man
who often packed a gun.

His tempestuous life ended when his throat was slashed by two men during a
brutal fight that he initiated, a court was told yesterday as the pair
pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder, but guilty to manslaughter.

According to an autopsy report presented to the court, Huber suffered nine
blows to the head with a metal bar, 65 stab wounds and a slash across the
throat that came close to decapitating him. He was then left for six days on
the roof of the Spadina Ave. building where he was killed.

The body of the 23-year-old was then wrapped in a sheet, a blanket and a
tarpaulin, taken to an industrial mall on Bayly St. in Pickering and tossed
in a dumpster.

When the body was found, Durham Region police started an investigation that
led to yesterday's guilty pleas.

According to an agreed statement of facts presented in the Superior Court of
Justice, the two admitted killers - 30-year-old Irwin Quigley and Augustine
Fontanelle, 32 - knew Huber. All three men lived in the Kensington Market area.

In the weeks preceding Huber's death, he and Quigley were at odds over
threats Huber made to a friend and because of Huber's boasts that he had run
Quigley out of town. In fact, Quigley had returned to his native Montreal
for some months.

On Quigley's return, Huber started actively looking for him, indicating that
he was going to shoot him, said the statement presented by Crown Attorney
Ann Morgan to Mr. Justice David Watt.

In February, 1998, Quigley and Fontanelle were at the Spadina Ave. apartment
of a friend, Kurt Damjanov, to whom Huber had been trying to sell drugs the
previous week.

After a knock on a back door, Damjanov - who was aware of the antagonism
between Quigley and Huber, and did not want trouble in his apartment - asked
the two men to leave.

When he opened the door, Huber was there trying to sell him an ounce of
marijuana. As they talked, Huber pulled a knife from his pocket and advanced
on Damjanov, the statement said.

As Damjanov struggled to fight him off, Fontanelle burst into the room,
grabbed a metal bar and hit Huber over the head. Quigley then entered,
grabbed Huber's knife and stabbed him several times in the arm.

Huber was still on his feet and "behaving in an aggressive manner" with
another knife, so Quigley stabbed him again. A blanket was then thrown over
Huber and the two friends forced him out the back door on to the stairwell.

According to the statement, Quigley believed Huber might have been
accompanied by his biker friend and bodyguard "Skeleton" or a second man
named "Big Dan."

Fearing further confrontation, Quigley decided to "silence" Huber, the
statement said. So he grabbed Huber and stabbed him repeatedly. At some
point, "he lost control" and cut Huber's throat.

Huber's body was then covered with some material that was on the roof. The
following day, Damjanov asked a friend to remove the body.

The three men fled the province. Durham Region police found Damjanov first
and he gave a statement that led to the arrests of the other two men.
They're to be sentenced July 7.