RCMP spokesman said Jopey Atsiqtaq was living at halfway house when he was arrested a charge of second-degree murder in the killing of Mary Ann Birmingham
Elisapee Sheutiapik, former mayor of Iqaluit , holds a photo of Mary Ann Birmingham , who was 15 when she was murdered in Iqaluit in 1986, at the National Roundtable on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Ottawa on Feb. 27, 2015.The Nunavut RCMP says a man recently charged in the killing of a 15-year-old girl about four decades ago had served time for two other murders when he was arrested this week at a halfway house in Ottawa.
“He did his 25-year life sentence, was released from the prison system, and he was residing at a halfway house with various conditions,” Henrie said in a phone interview Friday. RCMP have said Birmingham was brutally murdered in her home in Frobisher Bay, in what was then the Northwest Territories, in May of 1986 while her family was out of town. Frobisher Bay later became Iqaluit and is now the capital of Nunavut.
He added that in April 1990 a judge found in a preliminary hearing that there wasn’t enough evidence for Atsiqtaq to face trial in Birmingham’s murder.
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