The aunt of a woman who died after falling down a hotel laundry chute says a report critical of the investigation raises questions about how police have looked into other sudden deaths.
Delores Stevenson also says she believes assumptions were made about her niece because she was an Indigenous woman."I'm not going to sugar-coat anything because it was a very poor investigation," she said at a news conference on Monday.
The report, saying the probe did not meet professional standards, made 14 recommendations to improve how officers deal with similar cases. Still, the report says, greater efforts should have been made to protect any potential scenes in the hotel from contamination. The report's authors also believe Machiskinic's cellphone was not immediately examined by police.Regina police Chief Evan Bray said he stands behind the work done by investigators.
"The investigators were not doing their jobs," she said. "I've had to raise concerns over and over and over about how they were doing their jobs."
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