"Systemic bias" and "ser flaws" imped the Toronto police vtigatn of a serial killer who preyed on gay and bisexual men for seven years, an pennt review found.
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- ANTI-GAY BIAS LED TO 'SER FLAWS' TORONTO SERIAL KILLER VTIGATN
- A SPECTED SERIAL KILLER MAY HAVE TARGETED TORONTO'S GAY VILLAGE FOR YEARS
ANTI-GAY BIAS LED TO 'SER FLAWS' TORONTO SERIAL KILLER VTIGATN
"Systemic bias" and "ser flaws" the handlg of missg persons s imped the Toronto Police Service's vtigatn of a serial killer who preyed on gay and bisexual men Canada's largt cy for seven years, acrdg to an pennt review released 161-page report said "misnceptns" and "stereotypil ias" about LGBTQ people led police to overlook evince and miss "cril nnectns" durg their vtigatn to the missg men and Bce McArthur, who plead guilty 2019 to killg eight men, most of them people of lor. As another high-profile murr vtigatn is rried out the provcial pal followg the surprisg aths of billnaire uple Barry and Honey Sherman, police are tryg to figure out jt how many people Bce McArthur, 66, may have killed around the cy’s gay village ― or accatn follows years of dark mors hntg the area over a seri of unexplaed disappearanc, as McArthur and some of his alleged victims were found to have ti to the gay muny.
Police lnched “Project Hoton” November 2012 to look to the disappearanc of Skandaraj Navaratnam, Majeed Kayhan and Abdulbasir Faizi, who equented the gay village, but nclud April 2014 wh no nvictns.
He was romantilly volved the early 2000s wh Navaratnam, who disappeared om the gay village 2010, acrdg to CBC News, cg a iend of Navaratnam.
A SPECTED SERIAL KILLER MAY HAVE TARGETED TORONTO'S GAY VILLAGE FOR YEARS
The thori’ search has now expand to clu other hom where McArthur worked and other disappearanc the cy’s gay muny.
“It certaly enpass more than the gay muny. He was married for three s before g out as gay, leavg his wife behd to move to Toronto proper around 2000. As part of his asslt nvictn, he was barred om Toronto’s gay village and prohibed om spendg time wh male sex workers, the Toronto Star reported.