Victims of homicides linked to Winnipeg hospital stabbing remembered by friends, colleagues

The victims of two homicides in and around Winnipeg are being remembered by friends and colleagues.

The victims of two homicides in and around Winnipeg are being remembered by friends and colleagues who are trying to process their deaths.

Judy Swain is the woman who was found dead Wednesday at her farm home near New Bothwell, Man., according to friends.

Stuart Farley, Swain’s ex-husband, was also found dead that same day at his home in Winnipeg’s West End.

“He was simply a lovely man,” said LéAmber Kensley, who knew Farley through Winnipeg’s pagan community. “The shock of it all has been kind of overwhelming.”

Friends have identified Farley as the man in his 70s found dead at his Toronto St. home Wednesday evening – a homicide Winnipeg police and RCMP have since linked to a serious stabbing at Seven Oaks Hospital and Swain’s homicide.

Earlier in the day Wednesday, RCMP doing a well-being check discovered a 73-year-old woman dead at her home near New Bothwell.

Friends and colleagues have identified the victim as Swain, who ran a small farm and worked with a group that promotes small farms and locally grown food.