First Nations sisters Odelia and Nerissa Quewezance seek bail while 1994 murder conviction reviewed
The First Nations sisters have always maintained their innocence and another person, who was a youth at the time, confessed to the killing.Article content
Odelia Quewezance was granted a brief release from prison to travel to Ottawa last year to ask for justice. She said at the time she sat in prison all those years wondering “why?”Odelia Quewezance was 20 years old and her sister was 18 when the pair from the Keeseekoose First Nation was arrested for the 1993 stabbing death of the farmer.
“The Saskatchewan government has spent 30 years repeatedly denying the sisters justice, so now they must be granted bail immediately.”
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