He died a convicted killer. Now, Russell Woodhouse’s family wants his name cleared in 1973 homicide [Video]

Clarence Woodhouse was jubilant, walking out onto the steps of Winnipeg’s law courts with his family last fall.

Decades after he was convicted in a 1973 murder he always said he didn’t commit, a judge had finally said the words he’d waited so long to hear: “You are innocent.”

It was nice to be free after all those years, Clarence thought at the time. But months later, he’s thinking about his brother Russell — and how he never got to hear those same words.

“He was innocent too,” Clarence, now 73, said in an interview at his Winnipeg home. “I’d be happy to clear his name.”

Russell Woodhouse, who died of cancer in 2011, and his brother Clarence were among four young men from Pinaymootang First Nation in Manitoba’s Interlake area convicted in the 1973 killing of Ting Fong Chan. The 40-year-old father of two was stabbed and beaten to …