Bulletin: Ivan Henry: British Columbia; " Ivan Henry blames ‘conspiracy’ for wrongful rape conviction...Henry, of North Vancouver, who spent 25 years in jail for sexual offences before being cleared in 2010, is suing the prosecution, the Vancouver police and federal authorities for damages."..."Asked by Sandford what he meant by a conspiracy, Henry referred to a controversial police photo lineup in which officers held a grimacing Henry in a headlock. Henry is also alleging that the prosecution failed to provide proper disclosure to him prior to trial. On Thursday, Sandford pointed out a series of police documents that Henry says he never saw."

"Ivan Henry says he wanted to die when he was arrested and went to trial on charges that he was a serial rapist. He says he has always believed that there was a conspiracy against him. The North Vancouver man, who was wrongfully convicted and spent 27 years behind bars before being released, is suing the prosecution, the Vancouver police and federal authorities for damages.
On Thursday, his second day of testimony at the trial in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver, Henry’s lawyer Marilyn Sandford asked him to describe his emotional and mental health in the months following his arrest in 1982. “There was one time I wanted to die, but not by myself. I asked God to take me away. Of course I lay there for a while and it went away. I started to realize that I had a fight ahead of me and it went on.” He was self-represented at the trial in which he was accused of sexual offences against eight Vancouver women, many of them single and living in basement suites. Asked by Sandford how he thought he did defending himself, Henry admitted that he still feels that he didn’t do a good job. “I had a fool of a client and I happened to be a fool,” he told B.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Christopher Hinkson. “I had to fight for my life.” After the jury found him guilty, he said that prosecutor Mike Luchenko “told the court that he’d be seeking a dangerous offender designation against, which can result in an indefinite jail term. “It threw me off. It was a shock,” said Henry. “There was nothing to support what they were saying. I believed it to be a conspiracy from the day they took me to court.” Asked by Sandford what he meant by a conspiracy, Henry referred to a controversial police photo lineup in which officers held a grimacing Henry in a headlock. Henry is also alleging that the prosecution failed to provide proper disclosure to him prior to trial. On Thursday, Sandford pointed out a series of police documents that Henry says he never saw. He was arrested in July 1982 and charged with three counts of rape, two counts of attempted rape and five counts of indecent assault. After his conviction, he was designated a dangerous offender and ordered jailed indefinitely. His initial appeal to the B.C. Court of Appeal was dismissed for want of prosecution after he failed to come up with the $4,000 he needed to pay for trial transcripts. Henry maintained that he was innocent while serving his sentence and filed numerous appeals, motions and applications from prison, all of which were dismissed. At one point he was moved to a prison in Saskatchewan and was in solitary confinement and having difficulty trying to file an appeal. Henry told the judge it was “very, very traumatic. I was doing a dangerous offender sentence 2,000 miles away from the occurrence. I didn’t know what was going to happen next.” He carried a copy of the photo lineup picture in a plastic container on his person, afraid that it would be stolen."
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