Cop Says Gun Search at Pickton Farm Suspended After Women’s Belongings Found

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. (CP) – A investigator with the Missing Women’s Task Force says he tagged along for a search of Robert Pickton’s farm for guns in 2002 but didn’t expect to get involved.

Sgt. John Cater told a New Westminster jury he wasn’t surprised police found a gun in Pickton’s home.

But when he heard that a sex toy was found attached to the gun, he was concerned.

Cater was involved in Project Evenhanded, the police investigation into the disappearances of women from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

Cater testified that when word that women’s belongings were found at the farm he called Evenhanded’s project co-ordinator at home.

The firearms search was then suspended.