Slain Surrey woman’s cousin to speak with premier, pushes for bail review

The relative of a B.C. female killed successful an apparently random location penetration says she will beryllium speaking astir nan lawsuit pinch B.C. Premier David Eby connected Wednesday.

Tori Dunn’s family is besides spearheading a petition calling for a broad reappraisal of nan ineligible system’s decisions and procedures successful nan run-up to her murder.

Dunn, 30, was fatally stabbed successful her Surrey location connected June 16, not agelong aft returning location from a day statement for her husband.

The man charged pinch her murder, Adam Mann, was connected probation for anterior crimes and connected bail for robbery charges astatine nan time.

“It doesn’t make consciousness to maine that this man was conscionable retired successful nan public, this was an opportunity for him. It doesn’t consciousness safe for nan remainder of us. Even myself, I americium triple-checking nan doors each night,” Chasity Dunn said.

“She was a female successful her ain location minding her ain business pinch her partner and her canine location … It shouldn’t person happened and it shouldn’t person been allowed to happen.”

Earlier this week, B.C. Premier David Eby said astir nan killing, saying it “never should person happened.”

Eby’s authorities was among nan astir vocal successful pressing nan national authorities for changes to nan criminal codification toughing bail rules.

Those changes, implemented successful 2023, require convulsive offenders to beryllium why they should beryllium granted bail.

“We were successful successful getting those rules changed and they should person prevented this from happening to nan Dunn family,” Eby said.

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“Understanding why it didn’t activity successful nan Dunn lawsuit will thief america protect different families going forward.”

Chasity said nan family hasn’t heard thing from charismatic sources astir what went wrong.

She said that’s why nan family wants to spot a general investigation.

“We want to cognize if location was a correction made, is that why this man was released, aliases was this policy?”

Eby has already contacted Tori’s father.

Chasity said she intends to inquire nan premier wherever he thinks accountability lies.

“I americium hoping to thin connected him a small spot to spot wherever he feels we should beryllium pushing,” she said.

“He has already benignant of said really he feels astir this, but arsenic a family we’re not lawyers, we’re not portion of nan ineligible system, we are not politicians we are conscionable existent sad and angry.”