Inmate who died in custody in Saskatoon had a history of self harm: Court records
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An inmate in the Regional Psychiatric Centre died while in custody on Saturday.
An inmate in the Regional Psychiatric Centre died while in custody on Saturday.
Tommy Veevee was serving an indeterminate sentence in the Saskatoon facility since November 1998, according to a Correctional Service of Canada news release.
His next of kin have been notified, as well as the police and the Saskatchewan coroner, the news release said.
Veevee was deemed a dangerous offender after his conviction for two sexual assaults in 1997 around the village of Iqaluit, the capital city of Nunavut located on Baffin Island.
The 1999 sentencing documents from Judge B.A. Browne outline a litany of other sexual offences committed by Veevee beginning in the 1980s, some resulting in earlier convictions, others documented in testimony submitted to the court.
Veevee began struggling with schizophrenia in about 1985, Browne says.
The judge references health records from 1986 to about 1994 that outline "how little progress has been made in addressing Mr. Veevee's social and psychiatric problems."
