Woman's mail, welfare stubs addressed to Pickton's trailer
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Last Updated: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 | 2:38 PM PT
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A woman once arrested in the case of Vancouver's missing women was a frequent visitor at Robert William Pickton's farm and may have lived there, Pickton's defence lawyer suggested Wednesday.
During his cross-examination of Vancouver city police Const. Daryl Hetherington, lawyer Adrian Brooks had the officer examine photographs of documents that were seized in Pickton's trailer in Port Coquitlam, B.C.
Hetherington agreed that some of the photographed documents — including welfare payment stubs and envelopes — were addressed to Dinah Taylor at Pickton's trailer.
The court heard other documents were addressed to her at the Roosevelt Hotel in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, the last known address of some of the alleged victims in the case.
The B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster has been told that Taylor, Lynne Ellingsen and Pat Casanova were arrested in the case before Pickton was brought into custody in February 2002.
None of the three were charged with any of the alleged murders.
Pickton is being tried on six of 26 charges of first-degree murder in the deaths of missing women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, with a second trial to be held later. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Hetherington has testified that she handled more than 3,000 exhibits seized during her 22 months spent as part of the team searching Pickton's Port Coquitlam farm.
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