THE CANADIAN PRESS
MOOSE JAW, Sask. - Colin Thatcher says he's resigned to the fact that he will always be labelled a convicted killer even though he's made a new effort to proclaim his innocence in the murder of his ex-wife, JoAnn Wilson.
The former Saskatchewan cabinet minister, who spent 22 years behind bars, alleges in his new book, "Final Appeal: Anatomy of a Frame," that police and prosecutors concealed evidence from his attorney during his trial and subsequent appeals.
In an interview with The Canadian Press, Thatcher says the book reveals what the jury didn't hear.
"What I've done is put in material that's never appeared before, that the jury never saw, that the jury never heard from nor did any of the subsequent courts of appeal hear from either," Thatcher says.
"What impact would it have had on a jury? Well, what I'm saying is a jury should have heard it and I'd love to go back and let a jury hear the whole picture this time."
It was January 1983 when JoAnn Wilson was bludgeoned and shot to death in the garage of her Regina home, just steps away from the Saskatchewan legislature.
Thatcher, the son of a former Saskatchewan premier, was convicted of first-degree murder the following year.
He alleges that police and prosecutors "cherry-picked" evidence to present to the jury and "the rest of it they simply kept hidden."
Read more in Thursday's Times-Herald.
