Vancouver police should have investigated Pickton, B.C.’s missing women’s inquiry told
Posted January 20, 2012 11:03 am.
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VANCOUVER – B-C’s missing women inquiry has been told Vancouver police should have investigated serial killer Robert Pickton rather than just handing the case over to the Mounties.
Vancouver police have long argued that Pickton was the responsibility of the Mounties in nearby Port Coquitlam because that’s where he was killing women.
But Jennifer Evans, the deputy chief of Ontario’s Peel Regional Police, disagrees.
Evans conducted a review of the case for the inquiry and took the stand yesterday.
She said Vancouver police should have begun an investigation in 1998 after being told Pickton may have been picking up sex workers in the city and killing them at his farm.
Evans said city police could’ve opened investigations into the offences of kidnapping, or administering a noxious substance because informants told police Pickton used alcohol and drugs to lure women.
She said conducting separate investigations was a key factor in the devastating failure to catch Pickton.
