BC Premier Defends Police Operation That Solved 13-Year-Old Girl’s Murder by Secretly Collecting DNA

BC Premier Defends Police Operation That Solved 13-Year-Old Girl’s Murder by Secretly Collecting DNA
DNA testing is preformed at a lab in New York, on April 15, 2014. The Canadian Press/AP-Bebeto Matthews
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British Columbia Premier David Eby says he supports police who secretly collected DNA from members of the Kurdish community to solve the murder of a 13-year-old girl, saying he “really struggles” with the idea that they should not have done so.

Mr. Eby says the victim’s rights were “profoundly and unalterably violated” by her killer, and police actions made the community safe from a predator.