Inquest Into Death of Ian Bush Clouded in Suspicion

By 250 News

    Just as the death of 22 year old Ian Bush, of Houston (shown at right) was clouded in suspicion, the inquest into his death is under a similar cloud.

The Coroner’s Inquest gets underway tomorrow morning in Houston.

Members of the family only recently learned that a bruise on Ian’s groin was not examined by the pathologist, who said it may have been an infection.

The family wants to call an independent  pathologist who they beleive will testify that it was indeed a bruise consistant with a kick to the groin.

The cost to have  that independent pathologist  testify is $5,000 dollars  and the family feels the inquest should pay the costs. As it now stands the family must cover those costs.

The mother of the slain youth said she did not know about the bruise untill only recently when the disclosure of evidence took place.

Bush was shot to death with a single bullet to the back of the head after Constable Paul Kester said he feared for his life.    

Solicitor General John Les  told Opinion 250 his Ministry  will monitor the inquest  "It’s a very important proceeding, it has been extremely high profile, very tragic and hopefully when the inquest is done we will have more  answers than we have today."  

Les also agrees that  inquests into  events such as this, need to be held in a more timely manner "I agree that  the more expeditiously these things are done, the better.  In this particular case we could have done the inquest sooner, but Counsel for various parties also need to be available and that was one of the holdups we were experiencing.  It has been quite a while, but at least now, the Inquest wil be underway. "

It is beleived that Constable Paul Kester has been serving as a Constable in Williams Lake. He will take the stand to testify at the inquest before Coroner Shane DeMeyer.  

The Coroner’s jury cannot assess blame in the death of Ian Bush, only  determine how he died, and make recommendations to  possibly prevent  a similar tragic occurance.

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