Full Public Inquiry into Pickton Investigation

Thursday, September 09, 2010 04:53 PM

Victoria, B.C. - B.C. Attorney General Mike de Jong says the provincial government has called a full public inquiry into the police investigation that allowed convicted serial killer Robert Pickton to slip through their hands. Pickton continued killing women for years after first being brought to the attention of investigators.

The public hearing will examine how police dealt with reports of women disappearing from Vancouver's east side. Eventually Pickton was arrested and a search of his Port Coquitlam pig farm yielded DNA from 33 different women.

Pickton was eventually convicted of six of the killings, but the families of the victims have complained that police never took complaints from sex trade workers seriously. They wonder aloud if those complaints had been acted upon, if lives could have been saved.

Vancouver police conducted an internal review of the investigation and their report detailed a number of errors on their part and on the part of the RCMP.

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