B.C. murder suspect acquitted, confession tossed for ‘degrading’ police treatment

By Darryl Greer A British Columbia man accused of murdering his common-law wife has been acquitted after a judge threw out a confession she says was tainted by the suspect’s “degrading and humiliating” treatment by police. The judge found homicide investigators forced Frederick Charlie, an Indigenous man, to change clothes in front of officers who knew he wasn’t wearing underwear and placed him in a cell with an undercover officer who deliberately urinated on himself in front of Charlie. Charlie’s subsequent statements to police about the April 2024 killing of Vanessa Terry near Agassiz, B.C.,…