Both Marshall, who was Miꞌkmaq, and Seale, who was Black, were 17 years old. 1. The youths were approached by two strangers, Roy Ebsary and James (“Jimmy”) MacNeil. Ebsary had a history of violence including a prior conviction on a “weapons charge involving a knife.” 2 That night he continued this pattern of behaviour, with devastating results.

Roy Ebsary, who was charged in 1985 with killing Sandy Seale after wrongfully convicted Micmac Indian Donald Marshall spent 11 years in jail, has died at the age of 75 of natural causes. Marshall protested Ebsary's innocence and was finally released after an RCMP investigation. Ebsary spent a year in jail for manslaughter.

Sentence - Manslaughter - A 74 year old man with medical problems was convicted in 1985 for the 1971 stabbing of a man who was trying to rob him - The accused had previous convictions for possession of a dangerous weapon in 1970 and possession of a concealed weapon in 1982 - The Nova Scotia Court of Appeal noted that the situation was one of mar...

1982年12月2日 · In testimony Wednesday, James McNeil, 37, said he was with Roy Ebsary, 70, in the park when Marshall and Seale approached them. McNeil said Ebsary, now in prison on a weapons conviction, 'took...

They confronted and panhandled [5] Roy Ebsary and Jimmy MacNeil, [citation needed] two older men they encountered in the park. A short scuffle occurred and Seale fell, mortally wounded by a knife blow from Ebsary.

2019年1月19日 · Marshall spent 11 years in prison before an RCMP investigation proved he was not guilty of stabbing Sandy Seale in Wentworth Park in 1971. Despite MacIntyre’s steadfast assertion Marshall was to blame for Seale’s death, Roy Ebsary was subsequently found guilty of manslaughter in the death and served one year in jail.

2022年5月25日 · He described the real killer Roy Ebsary to police, only to be disbelieved and wrongly convicted in a racist legal catastrophe that set the precedent for government compensation.

2009年8月6日 · Roy Ebsary, an eccentric who bragged about being skilled with knives, was eventually convicted of manslaughter in Seale's death and spent a year in jail. Marshall died in a Sydney hospital in ...

2022年2月2日 · Then, a decade after his wrongful conviction, the Sydney police reopened the case. Roy Ebsary had told a roommate that he stabbed Seale. He’d been convicted in another stabbing case. And Ebsary had written a letter to Marshall …

Roy Ebsary was an 59 year old intoxicated man who was in Wentworth Park, he was the person who actually killed Sydney Seale. He was there with James MacNeil. Ebsary was known to get into many fights and exceptionally unpredictable, he had been convicted before for a …