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Details of Squamish lawyer's death revealed

Five years after his death, the public is hearing the details of the death of Squamish lawyer Bob McIntosh who was killed at a teen party nearly five years ago.

Five years after his death, the public is hearing the details of the death of Squamish lawyer Bob McIntosh who was killed at a teen party nearly five years ago.

On New Year's Eve, 1997, McIntosh went to check on a party at his friend Richard Cudmore's house in Squamish. He was found dead a short time later.

A taped confession by the 25–year–old man who pled guilty to manslaughter in McIntosh's death was played at his sentencing hearing on Thursday.

Ryan Aldridge told a police interviewer that a friend punched McIntosh in the face, and he fell to the ground. Aldridge says he then kicked the unconscious lawyer in the head a number of times.

A pathologist has determined those four or five kicks killed McIntosh.

It's also been revealed how police investigated the killing, trying to break a community code of silence that surrounded the case.

Two undercover police officers slowly befriended Aldridge and eventually taped his confession in an airport hotel room.

A second man has also been charged in connection with McIntosh's death. Ryan MacMillan will be in court on Friday to face an assault charge.

McIntosh left behind a wife and twin babies.

Squamish residents have remembered the popular lawyer by naming a bike trail and a triathlon after him.