Incident downtown brings back memories of missing son

By Dave Baxter  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The mother of a man who has been missing for almost a decade says news of a recent incident at a Winnipeg hotel has opened up old and painful wounds because that hotel is one of the last places her son was seen alive. “It just triggered me to see something like that happen at the Marlborough Hotel, because that is where the investigation started when Colten went missing,” Lydia Joyce Daniels said on Tuesday. “A lot of sad thoughts have resurfaced, so it’s been a tough few days.” Daniel’s son Colten Pratt was 26 years old and hanging out with a group of friends at the Marlborough Hotel on Smith Street on Nov. 6, 2014. At some point in the early morning…

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