Public inquiry into Pickton?

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20100805/pickton-details-100805/

Newly released court materials reveal gruesome details in the case of convicted serial killer Robert Pickton, including testimony from the only woman to survive his deadly scheme.

The woman says Pickton handcuffed and stabbed her at his pig farm in Port Coquitlam, B.C., about 30 kilometres east of Vancouver, in March 1997. She broke free, slit his throat with a knife and stumbled onto the highway, where she was spotted by a passerby.

The woman, whose identity is protected by a publication ban, and Pickton ended up at the same hospital. He was charged with attempted murder, but the case never went to trial.

And though RCMP seized Pickton's clothes, they never checked the items for forensic evidence – tests that would have tied him to two other missing sex trade workers, said CTV's Atlantic Bureau Chief Todd Battis.

…

The woman told her story during Pickton's preliminary trial in 2003, but the testimony was excluded from his murder trial after a judge ruled it did not directly relate to the six charges.

Pickton's videotaped statement to police after his arrest should become public in the next few days.

The newly released materials could bolster demands for a public enquiry on how RCMP and other police agencies handled the investigation, Battis told CTV News Channel on Thursday morning.

"I think it's going to be impossible now for the RCMP and Vancouver police and for the province not to launch a public enquiry at this point," he said.