BC Coroners Service was not present at the scene of the sudden and unnatural deaths in the Vancouver boarding unit where the decomposing bodies of Noel Osoup and a second adult woman were later found. did. Global news learned.
13-year-old O'Soup and another person were eventually found by cleaning staff after several months when coroners and investigators had to inspect the suite.
A question from a source familiar with the investigation into disappearances and deaths and a growing number of questions regarding the investigation process in this case.
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That comes days after a Global News investigation first published an allegation of a massive multi-agency oversight investigation in the tragic case of O'Soup. That's what I mean.
Global News can now report the identity of her second adult woman whose corpse has been found alongside Osoup, a woman named Elmaenan.
Hennan, who was in her 30s when she died, sources say she is a close relative of a working member of the Vancouver Police Department.
The bodies of Osup and Henin were found in her 40s, a tenant of the unit, 405 Heatley Avenue May 1. It has been more than two months since the man died suddenly on her February 23rd.
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Both women's bodies were already in the man's unit when he died, despite repeated concerns from residents over the lingering stench emanating from the suite in question. was somehow overlooked by the BC Coroners Service, the Vancouver Police Department, and the property manager of the building: Unit #16.
Multiple residents told Global News they believed the unit's tenants were Vietnamese.
"He passed by Kim," resident Fina Riley told Global News on Wednesday.
"He wasn't my jam. We didn't hang. I don't think I was the only one who said it smelled like death," Riley added. He spoke of the stench coming from Kim's unit.
"I spoke to the person who was supposed to run the place and said, 'Hey, Man, it smells like death in the hallway.The hallway smells like death.You should look into the garbage arrangements there," Riley said in a meeting with the Heatley Block property manager. Talk about repeated interactions.
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It stinks, really bad. 'I didn't realize it was an actual death.
Riley wasn't the only resident of Heatley Block to voice his concerns about the smell.
Multiple neighbors told Global News that for several months while Kim, the tenant of the unit in question, was still alive, an unavoidable percolation from his suite permeated his entire second floor. About no stench of the building they repeatedly expressed concern.
" To be honest, it was eight months before his death that I smelled it,” building resident Grace Bilikwa told Global News in July.
"I thought, 'Oh, it smells like death.' But the blood smells so strong. I had a hard time eating it. I was just frustrated." Bilikuwa said.
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If a coroner had been present at the scene when Kim died of a suspected overdose on February 23, Osoup and Henin's body would have been found months earlier than they were.
It is unclear why the coroner was not present at the scene of Kim's sudden and unnatural death. The conditions at the scene within Unit 16 should have first been communicated to the coroner by the attending Vancouver police officer.
On May 18, less than three weeks after Osup and Henin's remains were recovered, the Office of the Police Complaints Commission conducted a dereliction of duty investigation or A Vancouver police officer has been arrested in connection with an alleged botched investigation.
BC autopsy The case, which the station declined to comment on, cites an as-yet-open investigation into all three fatalities. However, when asked if the service's obligation to be present at sudden and unnatural deaths had changed, it confirmed that it had not.
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"Generally speaking, the coroner will find a reported death that would meet the criteria for an investigation established in Part 2 of the Coroner's Act. We are expected to be present at the scene of the BC Coroner's Service," the BC Coroner's Service told Global News via email.
"On rare occasions when it is not possible to be physically present at the scene of a death to be reported, in such circumstances the coroner may remotely pick up the deceased and place the deceased in a safe morgue.
When specifically asked if the state's overdose epidemic and toxic drug supply crisis had changed protocols in any way, the BC Coroners Service said yes. said not.
et al. will be treated in the same manner as all investigations in — whenever possible, a coroner will be present at the scene of death and direct the post-mortem processes necessary to determine the cause and manner of death.
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Riley, who has lived in Heatley Block for five years, believes there is an urgency to her investigation. He said he felt it was missing. "The Soup and Henan affair.
She also became emotional when she revealed that she was searching for her son.
"He just finished rehab and has been on the field for the last few weeks. No one knows where he is," Riley said of his 30-year-old son Dylan Justice. - Explained Young.
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"He's so handsome, so smart, and we want him back now." He said he was encouraged by the Vancouver police's initial response to his report.
But she believes that certain missing person investigations in certain areas get more attention and publicity than others. Neither O'Soup nor Enan were allowed in until long after the bodies were found.
"If this building had been in West Vancouver, they would have turned that room upside down within 24 hours of her," said Riley, referring to the Heatley Block where Ospup and Ennan were found. I mentioned the unit of
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"We're here in East She lives in Vancouver, where we don't matter." Besides, I got emotional.
"It didn't matter.
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