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RSS FeedsProvince has no plans for public inquiry into Toronto police´s McArthur investigation, Mulroney says
(The Star Environment)

 
 

22 february 2019 00:56:41

 
Province has no plans for public inquiry into Toronto police´s McArthur investigation, Mulroney says
(The Star Environment)
 


Ontario’s attorney general says her office is not currently considering a provincial public inquiry into how Toronto police handled the case of now-convicted serial killer Bruce McArthur, who killed eight men with ties to the city’s Gay Village over a seven-year span. “At this time, we are not looking at a public inquiry on the matter,” Caroline Mulroney told reporters at Queen’s Park Thursday. Mulroney said she instead hopes the scope of an ongoing review into Toronto police missing person’s cases — now being conducted by Ontario Court of Appeal Justice Gloria Epstein — will be “as broad as possible.”The comments were made shortly before Toronto police board chair Andy Pringle made a statement at the civilian board’s monthly meeting announcing it had formally asked the province whether an inquiry would be launched. Pringle did not appear to be aware of Mulroney’s comments, made prior to the start of the meeting. Pringle said that if the province had no plans to call an inquiry, the board would consider a request by Epstein to broaden the scope of her ongoing review into Toronto police missing persons cases and allow her to examine how Toronto police investigated McArthur himself.Read more:Five key takeaways from new police documents on the Bruce McArthur serial killingsMcArthur told police man ‘wanted it rough’ after assault reported, newly unsealed document revealsA timeline of the Toronto police investigation into Bruce McArthur and the Gay Village serial killingsMayor John Tory told reporters before the board meeting it’s important to know the intentions of the province, and the answer will help guide the board in responding to Epstein’s request to expand the terms of her probe, which was limited to a review of missing persons cases because the McArthur case was still before the courts.Due to considerations for McArthur’s fair trial rights, Epstein had not b ...


 
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