Prosecutors have withdrawn a second-degree murder charge against a man who spent 23 years in prison for the killing of a 10-year-old girl in 1989.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.
Imagine putting a pause on society during the 90s and 00s. Reintegrating into society now without that cultural conditioning would probably be weird.
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.
Damn, that’s wild.
Now is fucked.
And coming out to this shitshow.
I’d just turn around and go back to my cell.
Roof over your head, 3 meals a day. Sounds pretty good!
The new appeal turned on a recording of a conversation between an officer and the landlord of the building, which police had not disclosed.
On the recording, the landlord James Raymer, who lived in the same home as Darla and her family, denied killing the girl and “made some statements suggesting prior sexual contact with her,” the decision said.
As always, ACAB.
