The daughter of a Nova Scotia man who was wrongfully convicted of murder and spent 17 years in prison says she’s glad a police watchdog has at long last agreed to investigate whether officers committed a crime during their investigation.

Glen Assoun was convicted for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Brenda Way in 1999 and was acquitted in 2019. He died on June 14, 2023.

His daughter Amanda Buckle said she was relieved to learn that after years of waiting for an investigation, Alberta’s police oversight agency will begin examining whether police broke the law when they investigated Way’s murder. The RCMP has admitted that it was wrong to destroy evidence in the case.

“Now we can put one foot in front of the other. My family has at least a little bit of hope now that my dad’s going to rece

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