Bernard Doyle says a giant weight on him was lifted Monday when the Ontario Court of Appeal acquitted him of manslaughter in the death of his 17-month-old stepson in 1996, some two decades after he was sent to prison for three years.
“It was hard being what they said I was,” Doyle told CBC News on Monday after the decision, saying the past 27 years were “like a nightmare that didn’t end.”
Doyle is originally from Bell Island, N.L., and the father of three is now living in St. John’s. He was convicted of manslaughter in the death of Tyler Cunningham on Dec. 18, 1997, in a Kitchener,
