A murder suspect interrogated for nearly 13 hours, while falling in and out of sleep, confined to a cold room, not given food until six hours after his arrest, and subjected to aggressive police questioning about his suspected involvement in the brutal stabbing of a businesswoman in a Mississauga parking lot.
That scenario might sound like a scene from a television crime thriller, where fictional detectives confront and accuse a suspect until they break. But in this case, it was real: a Peel police detective interviewing a man, who would later be convicted of first-degree murder. Later, Ontario’s top court ruled that the suspects lack of sleep and the “prolonged, aggressive questioning,” can be oppressive.