Inquest called into BCC death
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Manitoba’s chief medical examiner has called an inquest into the death of a 44-year-old man from Souris who was assaulted by three inmates in the Brandon Correctional Centre in 2024.
Autopsy results found Collin Kempthorne’s death was a homicide after he was violently assaulted while incarcerated on Sept. 26, 2024, the provincial government said in a news release on Tuesday.
The man was found unconscious and was transported to the Brandon Regional Health Centre, where imaging of his head showed epidural and subdural hematomas with extensive facial and basilar skull fractures.
The Brandon Correctional Centre on Veterans Way in October 2025. Collin Kempthorne, 44, was attacked by other inmates in the facility on Sept. 26, 2024. He died of his injuries on Nov. 11. Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun files)
Kempthorne was taken to Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre the next day for further imaging. His condition worsened in the hospital, and he was eventually brought back to Brandon’s hospital for rehabilitation, the province said.
He later went to the Souris District Hospital for palliative care and died on Nov. 11, 2024.
Inmates Jarrod Lloyd Paul and Matthew Terrance Reddaway are charged with second-degree murder in Kempthorne’s death and are still before the court. Ryan Burrows was charged with manslaughter, but the charge was stayed early last year, court records show.
Kempthorne was being held in jail for allegedly breaching a no-contact order involving his former partner.
He was granted bail on Sept. 24, 2024, but was brought back into custody two days later after allegedly breaching his release order, other breaches and reportedly escaping lawful custody.
Inquests are called under the Fatality Inquiries Act when someone died as a result of peace officers using force or if a person was in custody when they died. Inquests also explore the circumstances that led to the man’s death and find out if anything can be done to prevent similar deaths in the future.
Information about the date, time and location of the inquest will be released later.
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