A Thunder Bay man has had charges of sexual assault and forcible confinement stopped in court.
Myles Alberto Sousa was charged in October of 2016 but it was not until September of last year the charges against him were stayed.
The incident involved a woman on the city’s south side a year earlier.
Sousa’s lawyer Neil McCartney says his client was “wrongly accused of a crime that was committed by somebody else.” He explains prior to the trial, material was filed “from two other investigations, that included DNA matches to another man, totally unconnected to Mr. Sousa, in two cases of virtually identical attacks on women, committed in the same time frame, in the same downtown.”
McCartney tells us a trial never actually started “because the Crown Attorney had no witnesses to present against Mr. Sousa.”
