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Interview: Rebecca Sophonow
An excerpt of fifth estate producer Morris Karp's interview with Tom Sophonow's wife Rebecca on December 11, 2009 at their home in New Westminster, BC.
Rebecca Sophonow’s husband, Thomas Sophonow, was wrongly convicted of first-degree murder, after three trials, for the 1981 strangulation of 16-yr-old Barbara Stoppel in Winnipeg. The Crown Prosecutor in the first two trials was George Dangerfield. Tom spent nearly four years in prison before he was acquitted in 1985 after a new trial was ordered. But it wasn't until 15 years later that Winnipeg police finally declared that he was innocent of the crime. Following a public Inquiry into his wrongful conviction Tom was awarded $2.3 million in compensation. The Inquiry Report released in 2001 found that key evidence was withheld from Sophonow's defence during his trials.
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