Separate inquest called for Highway of Tears
Published: February 16, 2011 6:00 AM
Arthur Williams/Prince George Free Press
Family members of women missing or murdered along the Highway of Tears called on Missing Women Commission of Inquiry commissioner Wally Oppal for a separate inquiry.
Oppal was in Prince George on Friday for an informal, pre-inquiry public forum. Family members and aboriginal leaders said disappearances and murders of women in the North took place under very different circumstances than the women missing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and convicted serial killer Robert Pickton's victims.
Brenda Wilson said she the murder of her sister, Ramona Wilson, in 1994 should be grouped with Pickton's victims.
"The majority of the girls that went missing on the Highway of Tears are, in fact, girls not grown women," Wilson said. "They have answers. They have a killer behind bars. We have no answers in these cases."
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