The daughter of a man who was shot dead in his home in the Kootenays spent more than three years worrying that the killer would get away with his murder.

If it weren’t for the killer’s confession before a judge last month in the death of David Creamer, he might have, said Taylor Creamer.

She and a former chief coroner from Alberta now based in B.C. have raised concerns about the B.C. Coroners Service’s employment of non-doctors as coroners instead of physicians as medical examiners.

Creamer said she had reservations after police and the coroner told her family that her dad, a healthy, active 69-year-old, had died after hitting his head at home in Kimberley on Feb. 6, 2022. His death was ruled accidental by a coroner who didn’t go to the scene.

“They told us he had fallen and hit his he

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