Convicted murderer Russell Williams leaves the Belleville courthouse Thursday. A letter-writer compares Williams' crimes with Robert Pickton's Lower Mainland killings.
Photograph by: Julie Oliver, Postmedia News, Times Colonist
Ontario police did well to quickly identify and apprehend Col. Russell Williams, as the Oct. 22 editorial notes.
However I see a hideous contrast to the almost malevolent indifference of British Columbia police forces, which for over 10 years failed to offer any of the same consideration to the more than 60 women missing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
The difference wasn't between provinces or due to the multiple police bodies involved.
It was the difference between the victims here and in Ontario and their place in society.
Read Stevie Cameron's On the Farm and see how a lowlife like Robert Pickton could, with great ease, brutally erase the lives of women who were down in the world, but who left loved ones behind.
These friends and relatives were routinely ignored by authorities and lied to, unlike the families of the two sad victims in Ontario, whose disappearance was taken seriously and investigated expeditiously.
B.C.'s judicial system failed as well and the evil man was convicted only of second degree murders of six of the victims.
He will never be on the streets again, but British Columbians should be ashamed.
Donna Wakefield
Duncan
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