Convicted killer dies ? Donald Marshall inquiry

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Roy Ebsary, who was charged in 1985 with killing Sandy Seale after wrongfully convicted Micmac Indian Donald Marshall spent 11 years in jail, has died at the age of 75 of natural causes.

Marshall protested Ebsary's innocence and was finally released after an RCMP investigation. Ebsary spent a year in jail for manslaughter.

He was also the first and strangest witness at the inquiry into how the justice system failed the 34-year-old Marshall. Calling himself "the Rev. Capt. Roy Newman Ebsary," he was reported to have scolded, threatened and openly flirted with lawyers who cross-examined him. He admitted to stabbing Seale in 1971 but said the teenager ran away and that Marshall must have finished him off later.

Donald Marshall's father, Donald Sr., Grand Chief of the Micmac Indian Nation offered his condolences to the Ebsary's. "We sympathize with the family," he said.