RCMP recommends more charges against Pickton
RCMP recommends more charges against Pickton
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10/29/2009
The RCMP is recommending six more first-degree murder charges be laid against Robert Pickton, but the Crown does not plan to go ahead with them in court.
All of the women involved are on the Missing Women list.
They are Yvonne Boen, Dawn Crey, Sharon Abraham, Stephanie Lane, Jacqueline Murdock and Nancy Clark.
Crey’s brother Ernie says he’s been waiting almost nine years to figure out what happened to Dawn, “There’s never going to be like a spiritual, psychological, emotional closure for any of the families, but there will be, in some cases, legal closure, and that’s what we’re looking for now. We want the person or persons responsible to face the music.”
While the Crown says it will review the six new charge recommendations from mounties, it won’t go ahead with them.
Pickton already faces a life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years on six second-degree murder convictions.
He is appealing those convictions at the Supreme Court of Canada in March.
Crown counsel spokesperson Neil Mackenzie says if Pickton is denied a new trial, the charges won’t be pursued, “The Crown does not intend to take additional charges to trial if Mr. Pickton is unsuccessful in his appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada on the six convictions.”
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