A former regional prosecutor –who quickly approved an attempted murder charge against Robert Pickton in 1997– says he doesn’t remember many details about events happening 15 years ago.
“That file was off of my desk and on its way to disclosure court and I never would have looked at the file again.”
Richard Romano –who is now a provincial court judge– has told the Missing Women Inquiry he trusted prosecutor Randi Connor when she told him the case had to be stayed in January of 1998.
“A lot of it depends on who the Crown is, but in this particular case, it was Ms. Connor who I was very confident in her decision-making ability and judgment. She was and in my opinion, is a perfect fit to prosecute that case.”
He adds it was important to assign a woman to the case because the victim was a woman.
The former sex trade worker barely survived a knife fight, but she was considered unreliable because –at the time– she was a heroin addict.
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