Canada: Report clears RCMP in case of wife who sought hit man

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'A federal commission has found that the RCMP acted reasonably in dealing with a Nova Scotia woman who tried to hire a hit man to kill her husband.

The Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP released a report Wednesday morning that said the Mounties who dealt with Nicole Doucet had no evidence for claims that her husband, Michael Ryan, had abused her.

“It is my conclusion that the RCMP did not refuse to assist Ms. Doucet; on the contrary, RCMP members were responsive to the family’s conflicts,” commission chairman Ian McPhail said in a news release.

“I conclude that the RCMP acted reasonably in each of its dealings with Ms. Doucet and her family, and did not fail to protect her.”
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Doucet, formerly Nicole Ryan, was charged in 2008 with counselling to commit the murder of her then-husband. She was acquitted, using the defence of duress, and the the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal upheld the decision.

The Crown appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada. In January, the court ruled that the defence of duress didn’t apply but said it would be unfair to subject Doucet to another trial.'