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Fourth person charged in connection to Summerland homicide

Fourth person charged in connection to Summerland homicide | iNFOnews.ca
Alannah Brown and Douglas Barker were found dead in a burnt vehicle near Penticton in September 2022. FACEBOOK

A fourth person has been charged in relation to the murder of a couple who were found in a burnt-out vehicle outside of Summerland in 2022.

Mitchell Reid Meilleur was charged last month with accessory to murder and interference with a dead body.

In July, the RCMP announced a first-degree murder charge had been laid against Jilane Faith King, and two others were facing charges in relation to the deaths.

The case dates back to 2022 when the bodies of Douglas Barker and his girlfriend Alannah Brown were discovered outside Summerland. The victims, who were 30 at the time, had battled with addiction over the years, according to family and friends who spoke with iNFOnews.ca.

It took three years before any charges were laid.

King, who is in her early 40s, was charged with first-degree murder and Simon Bourbonnais is facing charges of manslaughter, along with accessory to murder, unlawful confinement and interference with a dead body. Another man, Tyler Stuart, is also charged with indignity to human remains.

Precise details of what took place are not yet publicly known.

King has a lengthy criminal record dating back more than 20 years. She’s previously been charged with assaulting a police officer, assault causing bodily harm, theft, forgery and multiple breaches of probation. In April, she had drug trafficking charges stayed.

Bourbonnais has previously been charged with assault and currently has a charge for theft ticking through the court system.

Neither Stuart nor Meilleur appears to have a criminal record in British Columbia.

The next court appearance is scheduled for Dec. 10. None of the charges have been proven in court.

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After a decade of globetrotting, U.K. native Ben Bulmer ended up settling in Canada in 2009. Calling Vancouver home he headed back to school and studied journalism at Langara College. From there he headed to Ottawa before winding up in a small anglophone village in Quebec, where he worked for three years at a feisty English language newspaper. Ben is always on the hunt for a good story, an interesting tale and to dig up what really matters to the community.

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