Outside expertise needed in Don Dunphy shooting, Ronald Dalton says

A man who spent eight years in prison for a crime he didn't commit agrees with Don Dunphy's family that an outside police force should be brought in to investigate the fatal shooting.

Ronald Dalton went to prison in 1989 after being convicted of second-degree murder in the death of his wife Brenda Dalton in Gander. 

St John's Morning Show9:15Ronald Dalton concerned about the Donald Dunphy investigation

Dalton was wrongfully convicted of killing his wife. He spoke with host Anthony Germain.

Dalton, whose case was included in the Lamer inquiry examining wrongful convictions, was acquitted following a retrial by judge and jury in 2000.

Now co-president of the Association in Defence of the Wrongfully Convicted, Dalton said the concerns from the Dunphy's lawyer Erin Breen should be enough for an independent force to investigate.

Breen said Wednesday that Dunphy's daughter has lost faith in the RCMP investigation and wants an outside police force to investigate. Breen's request to the RCMP and the Justice and Public Safety department has already been turned down.

"[Breen is] bringing it to everybody's attention that she is convinced that there is a need for an independent investigator to be brought in and I think we should listen," Dalton told The St. John's Morning Show. 

Dalton said it would be better to have investigators with greater expertise in police shootings to oversee the case.

"We [have] a small jurisdiction where all the players know each other," he said.

"We need the expertise brought in, in a situation like this."

Dunphy was killed by a member of the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary in his Mitchells Brook home on April 5.

The RCMP are investigating.