Police took 60 hours to begin investigation into Regina woman’s death
REGINA — The family of a Regina woman found fatally injured at the bottom of a hotel laundry chute is questioning how she fit through the chute door and why it took 60 hours for police to launch an investigation.
Nadine Machiskinic was found at the bottom of the chute at the Delta Hotel in January 2015 and later died in hospital.
An inquest into her death started Monday with police photos and testimony describing the chute opening as 53 centimetres wide.
“The dimensions of the laundry chute — I’m not an expert but that looked like a pretty small laundry chute to start with. I’m just wondering how somebody could fit in that small, little laundry chute, manoeuvre their way … how does somebody get into that little small space?” Machiskinic’s aunt, Delores Stevenson, outside the inquest Monday.