An independent review into the way Toronto police handle missing persons cases will be expanded to cover the investigation into the disappearances of men who were murdered by serial killer Bruce McArthur.
In July, the Toronto Police Services Board brought in retired Justice Gloria Epstein to conduct a review of the force’s handling of missing persons cases in the Church-Wellesley Village area but because the prosecution against McArthur was still ongoing she was forbidden from examining any police “contact with or consideration of Bruce McArthur.”
In the wake of McArthur being sentenced to life in prison in February, though, Epstein did write TPS board chair Andy Pringle to request that her probe be widened. “With the concerns about Mr. McArthur’s criminal proceeding no longer applicable, it is time to expand the review’s mandate so that it can independently assess and make recommendations about the very cases that motivated its launch in the first place,” Pringle said in the motion approved by the board on Tuesday.
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