Inquest into Oak Bay murder-suicide deaths to begin next April

An inquest into the deaths of five people including a six-year-old boyin a murder-suicide in Oak Bay, B.C.,will be held this spring.

Victoria restaurant owner Peter Kyun Joon Lee was believed to use a 10-centimetre-long knife to kill his son, wife and two in-laws before taking his own life with the same knife on Sept. 4, 2007,Vancouver Island's regional coroner Rose Stantonsaid in September.

Stantoncalled the deaths a murder-suicide.

Those who died were six-year-old Christian Lee,Sunny Park, 33,Kum Lea Chun, 59,and Moon Kyu Park, 66.

The coroner's service said on Tuesday that the inquest jury — which will hear the case from April 28 to May 2 and from May 5 to 9, 2008 — will be able to make recommendations aimed at preventing deaths under similar circumstances in the future.

Lee, who was 38, was scheduled to be in court on the day of the deaths to face concerns he had been violating his bail conditions that required him to stay away from the family.

He was granted bail after a July 31 incident where he was charged with deliberately trying to hurt his wife when he crashed the family Land Rover into a power pole.