By Darryl Greer When police attended a single-room occupancy building in East Vancouver three years ago, they found the body of \u201cJimmy\u201d Van Chung Pham, a man with a criminal history who would later be described as a predator by the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs. What police did not notice at the time were the bodies of missing Indigenous teenager Noelle O\u2019Soup and a woman called Elma Enan, whose decomposing remains were only located months later in the tiny room that Vancouver police told the CBC was occupied by an \u201cextreme hoarder.\u201d The attending officer is now facing a neglect-of-duty investigation by the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner, B.C.’s civilian police oversight agency. But the two bodies had also gone unnoticed by a second investigator \u2014 the… <\/p>\n
By Darryl Greer When police attended a single-room occupancy building in East Vancouver three years ago, they found the body of \u201cJimmy\u201d Van Chung Pham, a man with a criminal history who would later be described as a predator by the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs. What police did not notice at the time were the bodies of missing Indigenous teenager Noelle O\u2019Soup and a woman called Elma Enan, whose decomposing remains were only located months later in the tiny room that Vancouver police told the CBC was occupied by an \u201cextreme hoarder.\u201d The attending officer is now facing a neglect-of-duty investigation by the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner, B.C.’s civilian police oversight agency. But the two bodies had also gone unnoticed by a second investigator \u2014 the... <\/p>\n