WARNING: This story contains graphic details of an assault.
RCMP responding to a 911 call about an assault on an Indigenous woman arrested the victim and took her to the local detachment in handcuffs instead of taking her to hospital, a coroner’s inquest in Quesnel, B.C., has heard.
Nadine Solonas, a mother of five, died the next day after she was taken by medevac from the central Interior city to Vancouver, 400 kilometres to the south.
Several RCMP officers testified they believed Solonas was intoxicated and didn’t know she had suffered a traumatic head injury.
The inquest into Solonas’s death in October 2017 began on Monday with an opening prayer by her
