By Patrick Penner, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Tri-Cities Dispatch The B.C. Supreme Court has rejected a bid by the family of one of Robert Pickton’s victims to preserve human remains seized from the Port Coquitlam pig farm where Canada’s most infamous serial killer carried out his crimes. Justice Alan Ross ruled on Oct 3 that plaintiff Sarah Jean de Vries – whose sister, Sarah, was among the murdered women – was not entitled to an order halting the RCMP from transferring human remains to the B.C. Coroners Service for testing and eventual disposition. He decisively rejected the family’s application as both legally unfounded and ethically troubling. “The position of the plaintiff’s counsel is that the human remains of an unrelated deceased should be retained for the purpose of introducing those…
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