Crown to appeal case of accused murderer set free due to Jordan ruling

MONTREAL — Quebec’s director of criminal and penal prosecutions says it will appeal a decision that saw a man accused of murder set free due to delays in getting his case to trial.

The Crown says it will appeal last week’s decision in the case of a Sri Lankan man, Sivaloganathan Thanabalasingam.

He was charged with second-degree murder in the slaying of his 21-year-old wife, Anuja Baskaran.

Thanabalasingam, now 31, was arrested in August 2012 and spent 56 months in jail without a trial, which is almost double the ceiling set out in a Supreme Court ruling referred to as the Jordan decision.