LFP Archives: The day Steven Truscott was wrongly convicted of murder

Marlene, screening on Saturday at the Hyland Cinema, tells the story of Marlene Truscott and the long fight to help clear her husband, Steven Truscott, of the notorious killing of a 12-year-old girl, Lynne Harper, he knew as children on a military base at Clinton, north of London. Steven Truscott was 14 when he was convicted – widely considered among Canada’s greatest miscarriages of Justice – and LFP covered the trial extensively. These two stories on the verdict, presumably in an evening print edition and subsequent midday print edition, were first published in The London Free Press on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, 1959. Read More