A former Quad Counties businessman and convicted sex offender has been cleared of a charge of failing to report to police in Quebec and registering as a sex offender when he returned to the country.
Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh was acquitted in a Montreal courtroom Wednesday.
The crown in the case said they learned MacIntosh was near death in hospital and unable to check in with authorities when he was charged.
MacIntosh was convicted of sex crimes against a boy in Nepal and sentenced to a seven-year prison term in 2015; he was also fined the Canadian equivalent of $12,500.
He had 17 sex abuse convictions dating back to the 1970s overturned in Port Hawkesbury because of how long it took for the case to go to trial; he eventually returned to Asia after his convictions were overturned.
