Prosecutors have withdrawn a second-degree murder charge against a man who spent 23 years in prison for the killing of a 10-year-old girl in 1989.

Ontario’s court of appeal set aside the conviction against Timothy Rees, 62, last month and ordered a new trial into the complex case, which includes recanted confessions, accusations of police conspiracy and mishandled evidence.

It came after two former federal justice ministers said a “miscarriage of justice” had likely occurred during Rees’s original trial more than 30 years ago.

  • Sturgist
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    9 days ago

    There’s a guy I see on the bus, nice dude, accidentally killed a guy when he was 18. Guy was beating the shit out of his cousin and he cold-cocked him in the jaw, bashed his head on the curb when he fell. He got out of prison 5 years ago, he’s just shy of 50. Went in in the early 90s, came out just in time for COVID. Said lockdown actually helped him to acclimatise.