The lead lawyer for BC’s Missing Women Inquiry has announced a key witness slated to testify today is no longer going to take the stand.
Commission counsel Art Vertlieb says they are going to respect a request for privacy from the woman,who was going to testify under the fake name Anderson.
“She and she alone is entitled to make that decision. we don’t wish in any way to add to her burden and i also want to say, of course, should ms. anderson change her mind, we would welcome her coming here.”
The woman survived a bloody knife fight in March of 1997, but an attempted murder charge against now-convicted serial killer Robert Pickton was dropped in january of 1998.
The prosecutor who made that decision, Randi Connor, is testifying this afternoon.
She’s explaining why the criminal justice branch didn’t believe Anderson’s evidence was strong enough to ensure a conviction.
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