A New Brunswick man who spent 18 years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of murder has died at the age of 77.
Robert Mailman spent more than half of his life under the cloud of a wrongful murder conviction.
On Thursday, less than two years after he was acquitted of the crime, Mailman died from liver cancer. He was 77.
On May 11, 1984, Mailman and childhood acquaintance Walter Gillespie were convicted in the 1983 beating death of George Gilman Leeman in Saint John. His body had been doused with gasoline and set on fire in Rockwood Park, court heard.
Despite strong alibis, the two accused were found guilty of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 1
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