'You were wrongfully convicted. You were innocent,' judge tells Woodhouse
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 a review of his conviction.
Woodhouse, Allan Woodhouse and Brian Anderson were tried and convicted in 1974 of murdering Ting Fong Chan.
Chan, a 40-year-old chef at the Beachcomber restaurant and a father of two, was beaten and stabbed to death near a downtown construction site on July 17, 1973.
All three First Nations men were sentenced to life imprisonment with no eligibility for parole for 10 years.
