Sebastian Woodroffe (Canadian)
Sebastian Woodroffe (Canadian)
Blogger Shows the video footage of the Lynching of Sebastian Woodroffe.
Sebastian Paul Woodroffe (October 26th, 1976) was a Canadian wanderer who was lynched and murdered by Shipibo-Konibo tribe members after being accused of killing their healer and rights activist, Olivia Arevalo Lomas.
Biography
Sebastian Woodroffe's passport.
Woodroffe was born and raised in the country of Canada, where he lived for most of his life. He is from the Comox Valley and Courtenay which is in Victoria near Vancouver Island.
He has a son named Piper who survives him.
Education
Selfie of Sebastian Woodroffe that he shared on his Facebook.
Though he has received most of his public education as a young man in Canada, later in life he was training to become a healer who could help people with their addictions.
He often traveled to South America to learn more about the medicines used as cures or agents for healing.
Career
Throughout his life, Sebastian some professional diving.
While living around the cities of Courtenay and Cumberland, at times in an RV, he worked worked several odd jobs.
In 2014, after being involved in a family intervention, he realized he wanted to help people with their addictions.
For the next six years, he studied to become a healing counselor.
He traveled many times to places such as Iquitos, Peru to study old plants to contain powerful healing properties.
In The Media
Lynching
On Thursday, April 19th, 2018, after Shipibo-Konibo tribe members discovered that one of their leaders and legendary healer, Olivia Arevalo Lomas, was discovered dead with two gun shots to the head, they began a search for one of her clients named Sebastian Woodroffe.
Tribal members accused the Canadian of committing murder of being the prime suspect in the murder of Lomas.
Instead of going through the court of law in Peru, tribal members and leaders took matters into their own hands, and embraced a lynching against Woodroffe.
He was ultimately strangled to death and later buried in the area.
Woodroffe had a been a long time client and mentee of Lomas.