Coroners Service denies deleting fired health worker’s suicide note
Posted July 7, 2015 9:15 pm.
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VICTORIA(NEWS 1130) – The BC Coroners Service denies it deleted the suicide note of a man who was part of a long-running controversy that surrounds the firings of eight government health workers.
Linda Kayfish says in a letter to Premier Christy Clark that the suicide note her brother Roderick MacIsaac left on his laptop computer shortly before his death was not there when it was returned by the coroners service.
Kayfish alleges the coroners service suppressed the document belonging to her brother’s estate and is calling for an independent, public inquiry into the firings.
Vancouver Island regional coroner Matt Brown says in an interview neither the service nor the RCMP deleted the two-page note from MacIsaac’s laptop.
He says the coroners service has a printed copy of the note and it outlines the personal and work-related stresses he was experiencing following his dismissal in September 2013.
The Health Ministry announced the firings of the eight workers amid allegations of inappropriate and possible criminal conduct connected to drug research, but charges were never laid and the government later apologized to the workers and their families.
