Man faked death to avoid Manitoba court date
It’s was like the script from a ‘B’ movie. A man tried to fake his own death, with his wife’s help so that he would avoid being sentenced in Manitoba for sexual interference.
It happened last year after John Malcom Ross pleaded guilty to sexual interference in Winnipeg on April 25, 2016. He was scheduled to appear before a judge for sentencing on September 8th.
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He never made it to the sentencing because prior to that date his wife reported him missing. Police located his car at Saskatchewan Landing Provincial Park and for day searchers combed the area using planes and underwater dive teams. He was not located and assumed dead.
Fast forward two months and he is located in Tomkins, Saskatchewan about 130 kilometres from where his car was found very much alive.
Ross admitted that he faked his own death so that he could avoid the penalties the judge was going to deliver in his sexual interference case.
Michelle Ross, his wife pleaded guilty of helping her husband fake his death and was given a six month conditional sentence and is under house arrest for the first four months. The judge also ordered that she pay to Search and Rescue Saskatchewan Association the sum of $10,000 to cover the cost of the search.
-News4 Staff-
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