Kari-Lyn Twidale and George Gordon, Vancouver, B.C. (NEWS1130) – A man tried and acquitted of killing Mindy Tran 14 years ago in Kelowna will be back in court next January. Shannon Murrin, who was badly beaten over the killing of Tran, is suing the lead RCMP investigator in the case.
Murrin has filed a civil suit against RCMP Sergeant Gary Tidsbury claiming the lead investigator conspired with three men to beat a confession out of Murrin in January 1995.
The three, Ken MacDonald, Patrick Dunn and Rob Holmes are also named along with the Attorney General of Canada.
Tidsbury, who has since resigned from the RCMP, has denied the claims.
Murrin was charged in 1996 and acquitted four years later in the first-degree murder of Tran, whose body was found in a shallow grave in October of 1994.
A B.C. Supreme Court trial is scheduled to be held before a judge alone in New Westminster on January 4, 2010.
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