The families of the women Robert Pick-ton took from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside will this month see the results from a public inquiry - more than a decade after the serial killer's arrest.
Commissioner Wally Oppal's final report will be made public on the afternoon of Dec. 17, while the families of missing and murdered women who had standing at the hearings will have a copy four hours before that, according to a letter distributed to those families on Thursday.
Oppal heard from 80 witnesses between October 2011 and June of this year, including relatives of Pick-ton's victims, police officers, Crown prosecutors, sex-trade workers, advocates and academics, among others. He tabled his 1,448-page report last month..
The report is expected to detail why the Vancouver police and the RCMP failed to catch Pickton, despite receiving evidence years before his February 2002 arrest linking him to the disappearance of sex workers, and make recommendations to prevent history from repeating itself.
A long list of critics, including the victims' families and advocacy groups, have argued the inquiry's terms of reference were too narrow because they were primarily focused on the role of police and prosecutors.
