Small gathering lays ashes of wrongfully convicted man to rest, as family seeks probe / Global

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A subdued ceremony at a Halifax cemetery marked the final farewell for a man wrongfully convicted, as his family laid his ashes to rest while demanding a renewed probe into his conviction. The gathering underscores long-standing doubts about past judicial errors, raising pressing questions about the true course of justice—because accountability, apparently, is always fashionably late.

Small gathering lays ashes of wrongfully convicted man to rest, as family seeks probe

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Small gathering lays ashes of wrongfully convicted man to rest, as family seeks probe

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