Alleged serial killer: Bruce McArthur was arrested in 2016

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Saturday, march 10, 2018 12:00

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TORONTO | The alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur could have been formed much earlier than the 18th of January last to believe the police in the Queen City, which had arrested the 66-year old man in 2016 after a meeting that was “very wrong”, reported Global News.

McArthur, a landscaper, had been the subject of an investigation after the alleged victim had lodged a complaint against him. The man who had agreed to meet with McArthur to have sex with him in a parking lot of North York, in Toronto, has argued that McArthur would have tried to strangle her while they were at the back of the van.

After being snatched from the jaws of McArthur, the individual told him that he was going to notify the police. Faced with this threat, McArthur would have taken the lead and will be presented to a police station in Toronto to say that the relationships were consensual.

At the same time, according to Global News, the alleged victim contacted another police station. At some point, according to a source quoted by the television station, McArthur was placed under arrest for the purposes of the investigation that was open then.

McArthur was questioned, then released, escaping then any accusation.

This incident happened a year before the disappearance of two gay men of Toronto, Selim Esen and Andrew Kinsman, for which McArthur is today accused of murdering them since the 18th of January last. Ten days later, three other charges of murder in the first degree is added to the folder of McArthur in respect of the death of Majeed Kayhan, Dean Lisowick and Soroush Mahmudi.

Then on 23 February, the police added to the list the name of Skandaraj Navaratnam, a man disappeared for several years in Toronto, equivalent to a sixth charge of first-degree murder for McArthur.

The remains of some of these alleged victims, some of which have not yet been identified, were found, particularly in the flower boxes on properties related to McArthur.

Finally, on 5 march, the remains of a seventh victim was added to the macabre balance sheet of the alleged victims of McArthur. It also has not yet been identified.

Note that in the beginning of the month of February, a British Columbian, told Global News the details of a meeting with McArthur like the one described above. The appointment, like the previous one, was held in the back of a van and had gone wrong because of the violence of McArthur.