When Brittani Russell contacted Langley RCMP last year about a crime blogger posting veiled threats against her, she expected it would get taken seriously.

Instead, the officer who came to her home last December suggested she just ignore the posts on the Dirty Newz’s website and social media accounts, Russell said Thursday.

Since learning this week that the site’s founder allegedly conspired with an international crime group to get a witness killed in Colombia, she realizes how at risk she was.

“This was such a lapse in judgment by the RCMP. I want some accountability here,” Russell said. “I’m sick to my stomach. I can’t believe that my life didn’t matter at all, and for a year, I was at risk this whole time without even knowing.”

Russell provided Postmedia News with more than two doze

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