Clarence Woodhouse, who was sent to prison 50 years ago for the murder of a Winnipeg man, has been exonerated.
Woodhouse, now in his 70s, has always proclaimed his innocence, but no one listened to him, Innocence Canada said in a news release in October 2023, when Woodhouse was granted bail during a review of his conviction.
Woodhouse, Allan Woodhouse and Brian Anderson were tried and convicted in 1974 of murdering Ting Fong Chan.
All three First Nations men were sentenced to life imprisonment with no eligibility for parole for 10 years.
Anderson and Allan Woodhouse were acquitted in July 2023.
“You were wrongfully convicted. You were innocent,” Chief Justice Glenn Joyal of the Court of King’s Bench in Winnipeg told Woodhouse on Thursday, calling the original conviction a “miscarriage of justice.”
More to come.
