Hamilton police face $10 million suit over homicide investigation

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Hamilton police are facing a $10 million lawsuit over a homicide investigation back in 1989.

Beverley Perrin was a mother of five and a school teacher in Stoney Creek. Her frozen body was found in a farm field near Green Mountain and Tapleytown Roads on February 15th 1989. She had been raped and strangled to death. Two men were prosecuted, Christopher McCullough and Nicholas Nossey.

Now, nearly 30 years later they are suing Hamilton police for negligence, false arrest, malicious prosecution and breach of the charter. Nossey was 20 when he was charged with first degree but after 19 months in custody he was acquitted. McCullough was 22 at the time and was convicted of 2nd degree murder but was released in 1999, his conviction was overturned.

Nossey and McCullough are going after the police force, three former police chiefs, investigators and the regional municipality of Hamilton-Wentworth.

The trial continues today, and Brittany Gogo will have more on the Evening News at 6.