BAIL HEARING FOR WOODHOUSE MONDAY IN MANITOBA
Indigenous Man Returns to the Court in Winnipeg where He was Convicted 50 Years Ago __________________________________________ More than 49 years ago on March 5, 1974, Clarence Woodhouse , a young Indigenous man, and a member of the Pinaymootang First Nation on the Fairford Indian Reserve in Manitoba, was convicted of the murder of Mr. Ting Fong Chan in Winnipeg, a crime he did not commit. On July 18 of this year, two of Mr. Woodhouse’s former co-accused were vindicated in the King’s Bench Court by Chief Justice Joyal in Winnipeg. A fourth accused, Clarence’s brother Russell Woodhouse, sadly died in 2011 before he could be vindicated. On September 13, 2023, Innocence Canada filed an application with Federal Justice Minister Arif Virani for a ministerial review of Clarence Woodhouse’s conviction pursuant to the provisions of the Criminal Code. We also filed a posthumous application on Russell Woodhouse’s behalf with the support of his surviving sister, Linda Anderson.