The aunt of a young aboriginal woman whose remains were found on serial killer Robert Pickton’s farm has told the missing women inquiry that early attempts to find Tanya Holyk were hurt by a civilian worker at the Vancouver police department.
Lila Purcell says Tanya’s mother Dorothy Purcell first reported her missing in the fall of 1996.
That’s when former missing person’s clerk Sandy Cameron accused Holyk of being a coke-head who abandoned her 11-month old son.
“And the police were not going to waste their time trying to find her. There wasn’t enough done to try to find her. i feel that if it had been done properly, perhaps this man would have been found sooner.”
Purcell says Vancouver police never addressed concerns raised about Cameron by Tanya’s mother.
Other witnesses have testified she was racist, but Cameron has yet to take the stand to defend herself.
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