Clayton Miller review finds no grounds for charges
Posted Apr 16, 2015 01:09:30 PM.
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Reports tabled Thursday from the province’s chief medical examiner and police watchdog say Clayton Miller’s death was an accident, and the investigation will not be reopened.
The 17-year-old was found dead after a party in New Waterford, Cape Breton in 1990.
His parents have maintained that police covered up information about their son’s death, and they weren’t happy with Thursday’s announcement.
Maureen Miller says when she saw her son lying in a brook two days after his death, it was clear to her that he had been beaten.
“You don’t have to be a rocket scientist, all you have to do is look at the pictures,” she told the Rick Howe Show. “You have to remember that we were in the brook with Clayton, we saw the mess of him, and it wasn’t from water, or falling rocks on him or anything. He was a mess.”
But Thursday, chief medical examiner Dr. Matt Bowes said Clayton Miller died from a combination of alcohol consumption and hypothermia, and suffered no beating before his death.
Next Tuesday, Maureen Miller and her husband will meet their lawyer, Ray Wagner to go through Thursday’s reports.
“There was so much information that was given to us today, that what we have to do is we have to break it down and show where they’re wrong,” she said.
Miller says she and her husband, Gervase, used to get their hopes up, that one day, the investigation into their son’s death would be reopened.
“I don’t do that anymore,” she said.
“I’d be more surprised if they did their job than if they didn’t.”
Ron MacDonald of the province’s Serious Incident Response team (SiRT) said theories that the New Waterford Police force played a part in Miller’s death were unfounded, and his review found no grounds for charges against any police officer.
