Glen Assoun: Nova Scotia: Extraordinary Development: The shocking truth is out: Documents unsealed: As Investigative Reporter Tim Bousquet reports in The Halifax Examiner: "BREAKING: RCMP destroyed information that would have suggested serial killer Michael McGray murdered Brenda Way - and that the destroyed information likely would have cleared Glen Assoun, who spent 17 years in prison, wrongfully convicted of her murder.

PUBLISHER'S NOTE: We now understand why the authorities fought so hard to suppress documents relating to the Assoun case - to keep them out of the public eye:  The newly released documents reveal, according to Halifax Examiner Editor Tim Bousquet, that the RCMP,  Canada's national police force,   "deleted, destroyed , and lost information which suggested that serial killer  Michael McGray  was the actual killer of Brenda Way - and that Glen Assoun,  who was convicted  of the murder, was innocent. Kudos to Investigative Reporter Bousquet, and his feisty, fearless publication   for  his role in bringing this shocking case to the attention of the public. Keep an eye on this developing story  which is expected to be up-date at the link below.

Harold Levy: Publisher: The Charles Smith Blog.

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 STORY: "RCMP destroyed information that would have suggested serial killer Michael McGray murdered Brenda Way; that destroyed information likely would have cleared Glen Assoun in the murder," by Tim Bousquet, published by The Halifax Examiner on Juy 12, 2019.

Newly unsealed court documents in the Glen Assoun case reveal that:

The actual killer: Serial killer Michael McGray was the likely killer of Brenda Way.

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The RCMP deleted, destroyed, and lost information that linked McGray to the Way murder

• RCMP Constable David Moore worked in the RCMP’s Violent Crime Linkage Analysis System (ViCLAS) division. ViCLAS is a national database for tracking violent offenders and the offences they commit. Moore was looking for more murders that may have been committed by McGray. Because Moore didn’t fully trust the system, he expanded his search of the database to include “solved” murders — that is, murders for which there was a conviction — and came upon the murder of Brenda Way.
• Moore believed that McGray had killed Way. In 2004, Moore related his suspicions to his superiors at the RCMP — Ken Bradley and Dick Hutchings — but they told Moore “he was wasting his time” as “the matter had been decided by the Supreme Court and it was not worth pursuing.”
• Despite this, Moore continued to investigate the Way murder because he thought it likely that Assoun had been wrongly convicted.
• Moore went to RCMP inspector Andy Lathem, the head of the major crimes section of the RCMP. Moore told Lathem of his suspicion that McGray, not Assoun, killed Way. Lathem asked Moore to put together a timeline of events. Moore was intending to put together the timeline, but on return from a two-week vacation in March 2004, Moore found that he had been transferred out of the ViCLAS section. He was not given a reason for his transfer.
• After he was transferred out of the ViCLAS section, all Moore’s work on the Way murder was erased from the ViCLAS system. Additionally, “hundreds of documents” Moore had kept in boxes, work sheets, and timelines went missing. The missing material includes information about other cases Moore had worked on.
• The deletion of ViCLAS information goes against RCMP policy.
• When federal Justice Department lawyer Mark Green was investigating Assoun’s case in 2014, he learned that RCMP Sergeant Dick Hutchings had ordered the “review” of Moore’s work in 2004. Green found that the review violated RCMP policy, as the review should have been conducted by an independent analyst.
• In his report, Green bolded and underlined the following paragraph:
Why was Constable Moore’s ViCLAS information not disclosed to your [Assoun’s] legal counsel when [Assoun’s lawyer Jerome] Kennedy made his requests [for information about McGray’s possible involvement in the Way murder]? Had Moore’s ViCLAS information already been deleted, destroyed or lost by the time Kennedy made his first request in September, 2004? Is there a correlation between Kennedy’s request for McGray/Brenda Way ViCLAS information and the destruction of Moore’s ViCLAS files? Would this information have made any difference with respect to the decision of the Court of Appeal [which ruled against Assoun’s appeal]?

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Assoun passed polygraph tests:

Although not admissible in court, the responses Assoun gave to questions during two polygraph tests were judged by two different analysts to be the responses of an innocent man.
This is an ongoing investigative news story.

The entire story - to be up-dated later today, can be read and followed at the link below:

https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/featured/breaking-rcmp-destroyed-information-that-would-have-suggested-serial-killer-michael-mcgray-murdered-brenda-way-that-destroyed-information-likely-would-have-cleared-glen-assoun-in-the-murder/

PUBLISHER'S NOTE: I am monitoring this case/issue. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments. The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic"  section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at: http://www.thestar.com/topic/charlessmith. Information on "The Charles Smith Blog Award"- and its nomination process - can be found at: http://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2011/05/charles-smith-blog-award-nominations.html Please send any comments or information on other cases and issues of interest to the readers of this blog to: hlevy15@gmail.com.  Harold Levy: Publisher: The Charles Smith Blog;