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Ontario Man Convicted Of Killing His Wife In 1970 Acquitted After 45 Years

The Canadian Press, 22 Jun, 2015 11:20 AM
    TORONTO — An Ontario man convicted of killing his wife in 1970 has won his 45-year battle to clear his name.
     
    The province's top court today acquitted 75-year-old John Salmon of manslaughter in the death of his wife Maxine Ditchfield.
     
    The prosecution also apologized to Salmon for a miscarriage of justice that sent him to prison for four years.
     
    Salmon's trial in the 1970s heard that Ditchfield had died from a severe beating.
     
    He maintained her injuries came from a series of falls at their home in Woodstock, Ont.
     
    The Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted hired three pathologists to re-examine the evidence and concluded that Ditchfield had indeed fallen multiple times after suffering a stroke.
     
    The new evidence allowed Salmon to have his case re-opened after all these years.
     
    "Charged with killing the woman I loved and spending four years in prison for it was an awful experience," Salmon said in a statement before the hearing.
     
    "The years since have been difficult, too. I have always carried the shame of a crime I did not commit."
     
    Salmon, who called Monday a "very important day," said he has spent his life with the feeling that people shun him.

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