Probe into death of sex worker suspended due to pandemic, say Correctional Service officials

'Some interviews will have to take place in person to properly conduct the investigation and so, it comes to its natural endpoint,' says Alain Tousignant, senior deputy commissioner of the Correctional Service of Canada.

Public Safety Minister Bill Blair, pictured on May 1, said in January that the Parole Board of Canada and Correctional Services of Canada would be carrying out a joint investigation into the death of 22-year-old sex worker Marylène Levesque, which has since been stalled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY PALAK MANGAT

June 15, 2020

The government’s probe into the death of a Quebec woman who was stabbed to death by a man granted day parole has been temporarily suspended because of the pandemic, says the correctional services commissioner.

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