Coroners service reopens investigation into Victoria teen's death

The B.C. Coroners Service is reopening an investigation into the 2021 death of a Victoria teen who died from a toxic combination of alcohol and a date-rape drug.

“All that was rushing through my mind when I received that was: ‘Finally someone’s listening to me. My daughter’s death does matter. She is important,’ ” Sims said. Sims believes Samantha was murdered. She believes the two young women were deliberately recruited by a mutual friend, invited to a party on Yates Street with older men they didn’t know, and drugged with lethal doses of GHB. ­Several of the men who were there that night are known to police.

“I just said, ‘Look, I’m begging you. It’s within the public’s interest. It will give them peace knowing that there is some hope in the justice system,’ ” Sims said. “She did not do this herself.”Instead, McNamee said he would reopen the investigation based on new evidence that was not available at the time the previous investigation was completed.

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