News release

Update: Charges laid in 2022 Penticton homicides

July 18, 2025 - Penticton, British Columbia
From: Penticton RCMP

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File: 2022E-16671

The E-Division’s Serious Crime Unit have arrested three people in connection with the murders of Alannah Brown and Douglas Barker, whose remains were discovered near Penticton in September 2022.

The BC Prosecution Service have approved the following charges:

• Jilane King with first-degree murder of Douglas Barker and accessory after the fact to the homicide of both Barker and Brown.
• Simon Bourbonnais with charges of accessory after the fact for the murder of both Barker and Brown, along with the unlawful confinement of Brown and indignity to human remains of both victims. Additionally, he is charged with manslaughter of Allanah Brown.
• Tyler Stuart is charged with accessory after the fact to the murders of both Barker and Brown, and indignity to human remains.

“After an almost three-year intensive investigation, the E-Division Serious Crime Unit has made the initial arrests of three suspects in the homicides of both Douglas Barker and Alannah Brown,” says Superintendent Sanjay Wijayakoon of the E-Division Serious Crime Unit. “We continue to actively investigate and ask anyone with information to come forward.”

Anyone who has information is asked to call the MCU tip line at 1-877-987-8477.

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