Two Vancouver police officers who decided not to warn a pregnant woman about a tip that someone was plotting to kill her in the days before she was murdered have lost a court attempt to block an investigation into their conduct.
Det. Const. Craig Bentley and Staff Sgt. John Grywinski were working on the region's integrated gang task force in 2005 when Bentley received a tip that someone was attempting to hire a hitman to kill 21-year-old Tasha Rosette.
The B.C. Supreme Court heard Bentley told Grywinski, his supervisor, but the pair decided to further investigate the tip rather than warn Rosette.
Five days later, Rosette was found stabbed to death outside the door of her apartment in Surrey, southeast of Vancouver. She was stabbed 40 times and her throat was slashed.
Her boyfriend, Amjad Khan, and his alleged accomplice, Naim Mohammed Saghir, were later convicted of murder and conspiracy to commit murder, though the province's Appeal Court overturned those convictions last year and ordered a new trial.
