Forensics Review Complete
Tuesday, November 13, 2012 @ 3:59 AM
Prince George, B.C. – The review of the evidence gathering in the death of Sylvan Victor Roy, has been completed.
RCMP Superintendent Eric Stubbs, the officer in charge of the Prince George Detachment , ordered a review following criticism from the Supreme Court Justice who heard the case against Patrick Mathewsie who was accused of killing Roy in a makeshift camp in downtown Prince George.
Justice Parrett found Mathewsie not guilty of manslaughter, pointing out 8 significant issues in the manner in which the investigation was handled.
Following the stinging criticism, which pointed out issues of an altered crime scene, recordings of mutterings of the accused although they had no authority to make such recordings, poor handling of blood samples, lack of photos, and witness testimony that they had been interviewed within the presence and hearing distance of other witnesses, Superintendent Stubbs called upon the head of “E” Division Forensics, to review the way in which the case had been handled.
The review has been completed, and did not offer any recommendations for changes in practices. Superintendent Stubbs says he is satisfied with the results of the review.
Comments
This is the problem with the RCMP. Accountability. Anywhere else, if you totally screw something up, and then have upper management review what you’ve done, there would be ‘changes’. Here, there is not even any recommendations for how to avoid the botched investigation? I can only hope that the investigating officer did not adhere to existing procedure and is now writing speeding tickets for a job.
So if the investigation proved Mathewise was at fault, he would than appeal it. That works out nicely.
Dead people dont appeal.
Was it really neccessary to kill him. He probably was a street person, probably with some mental health issue. Did he show a gun, did he attack him with a weapon of signaficance. Otherwise wouldnt using a club, or a stun gun kept him alive now.
Not to many people aspire to be a street person when they are ten years old. Life kicks them around and they end up being a street person. Sure they made bad decisions, like everyone else has. They just paid a bigger price, because they did not know where to get help, or had access to family for help. Some are born with mental health issues, others develop it from abuse, self inflicted or from supposive loved ones.
I would persume Sylvan was aggressive when the officer approached him, but wouldnt it be prudent if two officers approached him and try to talk the situation down and then take him to the third floor until a social worker sorts things out for him.
It was not a stumble onto situation, the system must have said to get rid of the camp. Send two cops down there so it does not become a subject of self defence, and bring the situation down where everyone gets to live. Obviously, the Sargent must have been aware of it being a potential conflict, so send two cops down. If it was one cop, he just has to park his vehicle and call for help, meaning the camp was not going to move. If he leaves than take down the camp. ultimately that was the goal, not to irradicate Sylvan, just to remove his camp.
He spoke: What ARE you talking about???
Maybe you have this case and another mixed up?
He spoke doesn’t know what the story is about so he is making up his own story.
And based on the story going on in his mind he has strung up a cop and accused them of killing someone when this article is about court procedures.
Wtf? He Spoke is obviously unfamiliar with this story. Perhaps some research and fact checking before commenting?
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