- Ken Deane
Kenneth "Tex" Deane (October 1961 –
February 25 ,2006 ) was a formerOntario Provincial Police (OPP) officer. He was convicted ofcriminal negligence causing death in 1995 after shooting protesterDudley George during theIpperwash Crisis . Deane was killed on February 25, 2006 in acar accident when his vehicle was hit by atruck nearPrescott, Ontario [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060227.IPPERWASH27/TPStory/TPNational/ "Key Ipperwash witness killed in highway crash"] , The Globe and Mail, Monday, February 27, 2006] . He was the third person involved in theIpperwash Crisis to be killed in acar accident [ [http://lfpress.ca/cgi-bin/publish.cgi?p=126211&x=articles&s=societe IPPERWASH INQUIRY: OPINION -- Ipperwash witness remains anonymous] London Free PressMarch 8, 2006] . No investigation into whether the three car accidents are connected has been made.Sergeant Margaret Eve was hit by a transport truck on Highway 401 near Chatham in June 2000, while Inspector Dale Linton, the officer who activated Deane's unit that night, was killed in a single-vehicle accident near Smiths Falls in October 2000.
Though Deane was convicted of
criminal negligence causing death he received an estimated one million dollars in a settlement with the Ontario Provincial Police. [Stephen Williams, [http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2007.05-Ontario-Provincial-Police/2/ "Life on Nut Island"] The Walrus, volume 4, issue 4, May 2007] .Deane was a member of the Tactics and Rescue Unit (TRU) and also an explosives expert with the OPP.
During his criminal trial, the judge, Mr. Justice Hugh Fraser, stated, "it was not officer Deane's decision to enter the park on that fateful day." This was a decision that would cut short an otherwise promising career of this officer. But the judge additionally declared:
I find, sir, that you were not honest in presenting this version of events to the Ontario Provincial Police investigators. You were not honest in presenting this version of events to the Special Investigations Unit of the Province of Ontario. You were not honest in maintaining this ruse before this court." [Peter Edwards,
One Dead Indian . Toronto: Stoddart Publishing Co. Ltd., 2001. p.198] .Deane appealed his conviction all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada, who upheld Justice Fraser's decision. [ibid. pp.251-252] [ [http://scc.lexum.umontreal.ca/en/2001/2001scc5/2001scc5.html Judgements of the Supreme Court of Canada, R. v. Deane] ]
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