VANCOUVER — The B.C. Supreme Court has rejected a bid by a plaintiff in a civil lawsuit against serial killer Robert Pickton and his brother to stop police from sending evidence found at the killer's pig farm to the BC Coroners Service.

The court ruling handed down Friday says Sarah Jean de Vries is a plaintiff in one of nine lawsuits filed by the families of victims against David Pickton and Robert Pickton, who was killed in prison last year.

The ruling says de Vries' lawyer found out "by accident" that the BC Coroners Service had issued a seizure order to the RCMP for human remains evidence found at the pig farm property in order to test and possibly identify them.

The judgment says de Vries applied to the court for interim orders to stop police and the coroner from destroying exhibit

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