Dead inmate connected to Penticton charges
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN – An inmate found dead at the Kamloops Regional Correctional Centre last week was waiting to face several charges in Penticton.
Daryl Belseck, 52, was accused of assault, mischief under $5,000 and uttering threats on Dec 23. He was due to elect his mode of trial on Jan. 21, two days after he died.
Belseck had a lengthy list of convictions in the Okanagan – most of his charges were for assaults.
Spokespeople for B.C. Corrections and the B.C. Coroner’s Service have not provided Belseck’s cause of death in their statements, but have stated his death is not suspicious. Whether a coroner’s inquest will move forward is yet to be determined.
Belseck was the second person in the last three months to go into the prison and never come out. Dylan Levi Judd, 20, was found dead in his cell during a morning check in November. Judd’s cause of death has not been released publicly nor to his family members.
To contact the reporter for this story, email Glynn Brothen at gbrothen@infonews.ca or call 250-319-7494. To contact the editor, email mjones@infonews.ca or call 250-718-2724.
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He used to steal his mothers pension cheque from the retirement home once a month untill he got caught, his family is a lot happier now hes dead.
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that guys a pedo and a rapist, he’s missing an eye because some Vancouver hookers finally caught up with him and beat him so bad with a bat they knocked his eye out.Trust me, i went to school with him.
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Levi Judd’s familyhas waited long enough to find out what happened to this young man they have a right to know!And now another one dieshmmmm— what are our rights of knowledge when it comes to the death of family members that are in prison this is worse than the 1800 when communication was by horse and buggy.it makes me feel so bad for these family’swhat’s going on that’s so hush hushthat they can’t say anything for months?
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IS SOMETHING SUSPICIOUS;HAPPENING OR AM IJUST IMAGINING THINGS :NO CORONER RESULTS PUBLISHED SEEMS MIGHTY CURIOUS;AS ALL INMATE DEATHS ARE SUPOSIDLY INVESTIGATED BY CORONER AND RESULTS POSTED? HMM!
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