Suit seeks to link police to Willey death
He was, police have now admitted, physically abused by officers once inside the Prince George detachment. That abuse, the RCMP now acknowledges, went unaddressed due to problems with internal investigations and co-operation with external investigations over the years. However, none of the reports into the incident - the most recent being last week's Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP probe of the incident - ties Willey's death to the conduct of police. The civil law suit now underway by the Willey family seeks to connect the two. The RCMP's legal position denies all of the alle...