Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 9, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba June 2000 m v j i 4 Pauli a Winnipeg free press flyer in today changes on the Homestead a Kenora couple Are Canadas new to pioneers after a Manitoba duo Calls it quits a3 Winnipeg Sui scribers Only the big Kahuna Oscar winning actor Kevin Spacey adds depth to his portrayal of malcontents 01 the Tif mainly 60 Chance of lat Day High 22 11 v garbage Day 3 schooldays inside deadly viruses arrive six strains of the deadliest viruses in the world were delivered by courier to the cites virology lab yesterday making the lab fully operational a3 last March for Jesus the annual March for founded in Winnipeg in 1987 and now a worldwide Christ Ian parades into tomorrows event from Blue to livid bomber and Winnipeg Volunteer Glen Scrivener cries foul after being Given his walking papers after refusing to take a larger pay Cut than the he had agreed to earlier c3 Home Sweet Home the Home renovations Busi Ness is canadians will spend billion sprucing up their Homes this a new study predicts 17 police apologize to have new suspect in 81 slaying innocent province orders judge eyes compensation by Dan Mike Mclntyre and Leah Janzen Winnipeg police service ended 19 years of nagging doubt and suspicion when it cleared Thomas soph now yesterday of the 1981 Mur Der of Barbara Stoppel and confirmed it is pursuing a new with the results of the police investigation in Manitoba Justice minister Gord Mackintosh reacted announcing he has ordered a judicial inquiry into the in which soph now spent nearly four years in jail and was tried three times before being retired supreme court of Canada Justice Peter Cory will head the inquiry and deter mine whether soph now is Eli Gible for financial Mackintosh the inquiry will not begin until the new suspect is charged and police chief Jack Swatski said evidence uncovered in a reinvestigation of the Stoppel launched in novem Ber conclusively excluded soph now and pointed towards a new police sources confirm a seven member task including at least one Crown has worked full time on the Stoppel Swatski would not detail the new evidence uncovered or identify the new but police sources say the task Force is close to making an Swatski said the Man does not pose a threat to the com he would not say whether the suspect was under surveillance or is there have always been lingering questions with this and there were including who we rent comfortable with some of those we Felt it was time to Clear the said continued please see soph now As Stoppel killed in inside six pages of coverage i shaky grounds for convictions a8 a step Forward a9 i system faulted a10 i criminal code changes unveiled a11 i editorial paradoxical a12 a Page of pictures b4 Aaron Harris Canadian press in the last 19 years there has never been a period of time when my life Felt Normal Ive never truly been Able to put it behind me Thomas soph now tears flow after Long Nightmare ends after his emotional news con Ference in Toronto Thomas soph now sat Down for a face to face inter View with free press police reporter Leah soph now talked about the anger and bitterness he Felt during the past 19 and spoke of having considered Here is her exclusive Toronto hobbling cautiously on crutches and at times unable to hold Back his Thomas soph now emerged from a 19year Nightmare longer shackled by the suspicion that he got away with Mur the Man who spent nearly four years in jail for the 1981 slaying of 16yearold Barbara Gayle Stoppel said the years struggling to prove his innocence left him at times feeling incredible anger and for a Brief moment at his lowest like taking his own my kids and my Faith sustained me during those he said after a news conference in Toronto yester his foot injured in a slip and up in a cast on a but there was a time i remember thinking i wish the police and those involved in prosecuting him would All Burn in since being acquitted of the Mur Der charges in 1985 after the Manitoba court of Appeal ruled three trials and an equal number of appeals amounted to a miscarriage of has tried to rebuild his life in Vancouver with his and his three Eliz Sarah and he said Hes turned to god and Reli Gion since being released from jail to help him find peace and forgiveness for those who worked to put him behind bars and fought to keep him there despite evidence pointing to his even though he was the Mantle of guilt has Clung to soph now and life has not been in the Early hours of March soph now and his family were sleep ing when they awoke to find flames Licking up the sides of their a firebombed had targeted soph now after a popular television personality in Vancouver had made the connection Between the killing of a Vancouver girl and the Stoppel Case in Winnipeg and had suggested soph now was guilty of in the last 19 years there has never been a period of time when my life Felt he looking older and softer than angular Man who lived on the front pages of Winnipeg 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