Darcy Sidoruk was 18 in 1982 when he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to the shooting death of family friend Yvonne Doucette two years earlier in Dawson Creek. Sidoruk also admitted to shooting 19-year-old James Peet, who picked him up while hitchhiking outside Dawson Creek shortly after Douchette was killed. His 1982 sentencing hearing referred to his long antisocial and criminal past, including charges of assaulting a teacher and a toddler, theft, burglary and, at 14, being the only child to be expelled from every public school in Ft. Nelson. A psychiatrist told the hearing that Sidoruk suffered severe burns in an accident aged three and spent much of his childhood recovering alone in hospital before his parents abandoned him and placed him in the care of a relative, where he suffered further abuse . Sidoruk, who was 58, was serving his sentence at the Pacific Institution in Abbotsford, and a statement from the facility said police and the coroner have been notified and the Correctional Service of Canada will also look into the death.
