WINDSOR - A man who spent more than 30 years behind bars after being wrongfully convicted of murder is suing the people he says landed him in prison.
Romeo Phillion is suing the Attorney General of Ontario, the Ottawa Police Services Board and two individual officers for $14 million.
His suit accuses the defendants of malicious and negligent conduct that resulted in his conviction and long prison sentence in the 1967 murder of an Ottawa firefighter.
Phillion alleges police manipulated witnesses to support a false confession he quickly recanted, despite their knowledge that he was not in Ottawa at the time of the murder.
The defendants did not immediately offer comment on the suit.
Phillion was sentenced to life in prison in 1972 for the murder of Leopold Roy, but the Ontario Court of Appeal quashed his conviction in 2009.
