Evidence not needed in suit against Pickton’s brother: Judge

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Vancouver. The Supreme Court of the British Colombia rejected the plaintiff’s proposal in the civil trial against the serial killer Robert Picton and his brother, so that the police did not send evidence found on the pig farm for the killer to the British Corrains' service.

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The court decision was transferred on Friday, it was said that Sarah Jin de Vris is a plaintiff in one of the nine trials filed by the family of victims against David Picton and Robert Picton, who was killed in prison last year.

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The resolution says that the lawyer de Vrisa found “in random” that the BC Corner Service issued an order to withdraw RCMP for human remains found in the ownership of pigs to check and, possibly, identify them.

The decision says that de Vris filed an application for an intermediate order to stop the police and coroner from the destruction of exhibits from the farm, claiming that human remains were necessary for use in the civil trial.

Picton was convicted of the murder of six women, but the remains of many women were found on the farm, including the remains of Sarah de Vris, the mother of the plaintiff.

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Judge Alan Ross rejected the application for the human remains to be maintained for use as evidence in the civil court, saying that this is a “morally offensive” concept against the legislation governing the disposal of the bodies.

“I believe that there are no possibilities in which a person is still necessary for the plaintiff to put forward her claim,” says Ross in the decision. “Further and, looking at this issue from a different point of view, the legislative scheme is designed to treat human remnants with the dignity that they deserve.”

The decision says that the police still have “dozens” of unidentified samples of evidence, and the coroner ordered the police to transfer them now when the criminal investigation was closed.

The plaintiff’s lawyer claimed the police, and the coroner “bypassed” the earlier court and proposed a “conspiracy” between them to destroy the evidence.

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Another judge of the BC Supreme Court rejected the statements of the victims of Picton last year to intervene in the trials about RCMP plans to destroy evidence from the same investigation of the murder.

Judge Frit Veruhuveven found that families should be notified of any applications on RCMP in order to get rid of evidence, but his decision did not cover orders to capture from the coroner.

Lawyer Jason Gratl said in an interview on Monday that the application was submitted to stop evidence potentially destroyed, and not prevent the corner to check the evidence.

“I do not see anything immoral in trying to prevent RCMP to destroy material evidence, DNA samples, provided during a consistent investigation of the murder, when the technology of testing and DNA analysis is constantly moving, and when viable suspects remain at large,” he said.

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Gratl said that one of the nine trials was intended for the trial in January 2026, but the death of Picton and how his property will become a party to the actions remains uncertain, and other procedural issues impede the progress of trials.

Martin Charest, the Pickton's maximum security prison in Quebec, pleaded guilty of the murder of the first degree last month after the death of Picton.

Judicial claims are called David Picton to the defendant, claiming that he “is obliged to warn women who entered into the ownership of the farm pigs, where murders were committed.

“The plaintiffs claim that the evidence of Robert Picton’s crimes were or should have been obvious to David Picton,” says the court decision.

The BC Corner Service refused to comment on the case.

The lawyer David Picton, Jacob Henderson, did not immediately respond to the request for comments on the decision.

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