Nova Scotia’s police watchdog is in talks with a civilian agency that is interested in investigating the role of police in the wrongful murder conviction of Glen Assoun, provincial justice officials confirmed Thursday.
But Justice Minister Barbara Adams gave few details following a cabinet meeting, saying only that further comment would come from the province’s police oversight agency, the Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT).
“We are aware that there is a civilian organization that is interested and willing to take the case on, but right now they are going through the process of determining if they are able to do so,” Adams said.
Assoun, who died in June 2023 at age 67, was acquitted in March 2019 of the 1995 killing of his ex-girlfriend, Brenda Lee Anne Way, after spending almost 17 years in prison. A preliminary assessment by the federal Justice Department determined that the RCMP had chosen not …