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Demetrios Angelis has always done everything by the book, so on a Sunday morning in June 2008, and right after church, he called 911 and said his wife had died after he defended himself against a vicious attack.

The longtime Ottawa civil servant was shown the backseat of a police cruiser and locked up. He was later convicted of murdering his wife, Lien Angelis, and sentenced to life in prison.

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The man with no criminal record spent three years in jail and prison, including the notorious and now-closed Kingston Penitentiary, which caged many of the country’s worst criminals.

On Thursday, after a re-trial highlighted by an authoritative defence team, Angelis, 45, was acquitted of second-degree murder and manslaughter.

Vindicated after six years of being branded as a killer, Angelis sat in court stunned.

“He’s in shock. It hasn’t sunk in yet,” said lead defence lawyer Oliver Abergel of Abergel Goldstein & Partners.