Twelve years in jail for murder that may not have happened 'hell,' man says

COLIN PERKEL
Wed Sep 21, 5:43 PM ET

TORONTO (CP) - A man who spent more than a third of his life in prison for a rape and murder that may have never taken place stepped into the sunshine Wednesday, freed on bail from a 12-year "hell" while Ottawa decides whether he fell victim to another Canadian miscarriage of justice.

William Mullins-Johnson fought back tears as he emerged from a Toronto courthouse just minutes after an Ontario Superior Court judge set him free on $125,000 bail pending the results of a federal review of his case.

"The last 12 years has been nothing but hell for me - and my family," Mullins-Johnson said, his voice catching.

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