Murderer seeks bail; says trial wasn’t fair
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CONVICTED murderer Frank Ostrowski will apply for bail while the federal justice minister decides if he got a fair trial in the 1986 murder of Robert Nieman.
A bail application was filed Tuesday in Court of Queen’s Bench by Ostrowski’s lawyers, James Lockyer and Alan Libman, of the Association in Defence of the Wrongfully Convicted.
The bail application has taken years to get to this point despite Ostrowki’s protests from Day 1 he had nothing to do with Nieman’s slaying. A date for the bail hearing has not been set.
Ostrowski’s family was unaware the paperwork to get him out of prison had been filed.
Ostrowski was one of three men imprisoned for executing Nieman, a small-time drug dealer, in a Tyndall Park townhouse.
Ostrowski, a flamboyant hairstylist, was convicted in 1987 of ordering the killing while two other men carried it out to wipe out drug debts. One of them, Jose Luis Correia, was recently released from prison and deported to Portugal.
At issue is whether chief witness Matthew Lovelace was given immunity on a cocaine possession charge in exchange for testifying against Ostrowski.
Lovelace was acquitted of possessing $17,000 worth of cocaine more than a year after he testified against Ostrowski.
The process used to free Ostrowski is the same Lockyer and Libman used to free James Driskell in 2003. Driskell was convicted in the 1991 murder of Perry Dean Harder and spent 12 years behind bars. An inquiry showed he got an unfair trial because police and prosecutors failed to disclose that a key Crown witness was compensated for his testimony.
Driskell was awarded $4 million in compensation.
bruce.owen@freepress.mb.ca