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\u2019s victims to preserve human remains seized from the Port Coquitlam pig farm where Canada\u2019s most infamous serial killer carried out his crimes. Justice Alan Ross ruled on Oct 3 that plaintiff Sarah Jean de Vries \u2013 whose sister, Sarah, was among the murdered women \u2013 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\u2019s application as both legally unfounded and ethically troubling. \u201cThe position of the plaintiff\u2019s counsel is that the human remains of an unrelated deceased should be retained for the purpose of introducing those… <\/p>\n
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\u2019s victims to preserve human remains seized from the Port Coquitlam pig farm where Canada\u2019s most infamous serial killer carried out his crimes. Justice Alan Ross ruled on Oct 3 that plaintiff Sarah Jean de Vries \u2013 whose sister, Sarah, was among the murdered women \u2013 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\u2019s application as both legally unfounded and ethically troubling. \u201cThe position of the plaintiff\u2019s counsel is that the human remains of an unrelated deceased should be retained for the purpose of introducing those... <\/p>\n