Lametti cited unspecified new evidence in his decision to order another trial for Brian Anderson and Allan Woodhouse, who were sentenced to life in prison in the death of Ting Fong Chan, a restaurant worker who was fatally stabbed in 1973.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
“We expect that when they attend in court in Winnipeg over the next few weeks that the matter will be finalized,” Kennedy said in an interview from St. John’s, N.L. The men’s convictions were based largely on a signed confession given by Anderson to police. But lawyers have said Anderson did not know what he was signing and English was not his first language.
Anderson was released on parole in 1987 and Woodhouse in 1990. No dates have been set for when the two might next appear in a Manitoba court.
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