BC Court Allows Police to Apply to Dispose of Evidence at Serial Killer’s Property

Unidentified family or friend lights a candle while another watches as a construction shovel demolishes the Pickton farm house on the pig farm in Port Coquitlam, B.C. on July 26, 2003. The Canadian Press/Chuck Stoody

The B.C. Supreme Court says it has jurisdiction to order the disposal of thousands of pieces of evidence seized from Robert Pickton’s pig farm decades ago, whether it was used in his murder trial or not.

The court says in a ruling issued online today that the RCMP can apply to dispose of some 15,000 pieces of evidence collected from the search of Pickton’s property in Port Coquitlam, including “items determined to belong to victims.”