Robert Mailman, left, and Walter Gillespie, speak to media shortly after their hearing at Saint John Law Courts in Saint John, N.B., January 4, 2024. The two men recently had a 1984 murder conviction overturned and have now been found formally not guilty.
The New Brunswick government has reached a settlement with Robert Mailman and Walter Gillespie, who were acquitted last month after being wrongly convicted of murder nearly 40 years ago in Saint John, according to Innocence Canada.A New Brunswick judge apologized last month to Robert Mailman, left, and Walter Gillespie, who were wrongfully convicted of second-degree murder almost 40 years ago.
"He does hope to have a nicer apartment to leave his common-law wife in when he does pass, but he knows that the end is near for him."In Gillespie's case, the day he got acquitted, he had to move out of the halfway house where he was living and lost the part-time job he had there. But Bruce Macfarlane of the Executive Council Office, told CBC, "We can confirm a tentative deal has been reached."
"The parties are pleased that an amicable resolution could be reached on terms that all parties agree were fair and reasonable."Mailman and Gillespie were convicted of second-degree murder in May 1984 in the November 1983 death of George Leeman, whose beaten and burned body was found in the woods at Rockwood Park., saying new information led him to believe "a miscarriage of justice likely occurred." He granted them a new trial.
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