EXCLUSIVE: RCMP Probe Found Alberta Prosecutors Relied on Foreign Doctor with Falsified Experience Are Alberta Crown prosecutors relying on a fake forensic pathologist to wrongfully convict people?
That is the question arising from an official RCMP investigation that found “inaccuracies” in the CV of “Dr.” Bamidale Adeagbo, whose credentials were relied on in numerous criminal trials involving Albertans.
But despite the RCMP’s findings, Alberta Crown Prosecution Service determined that his falsified CV did not meet the threshold for perjury and recommended no charges, even though it had been entered into agreed statements of fact in court proceedings.
“I was wrongfully convicted and went to jail when I shouldn’t have gone to jail because of this Nigerian pathologist who may not even be a doctor,” says David Stephan, who was wrongfully convicted in 2016 of failing to provide the necessaries of life to his son, Ezekiel Stephan.
The Crown’s star witness in Stephan’s case, Bamidale Adeagbo, testified that his son died from a treatable infection, bacterial meningitis and a lung infection, rather than from failures by emergency responders. That testimony was relied upon by the Crown to have Stephan found liable for the death.
But later, in 2021, Bob Rai, another Albertan who was victimized by Bamidale Adeagbo, who he says turned his cousin’s murder by organized crime into a suicide, supplied his extensive research into Adeagbo’s medical background to David Stephan and to an American media outlet, FF12, which revealed that Adeagbo falsified his medical credentials and that U.S. authorities were unable to primary-source verify his alleged medical diploma from Nigeria.
Now, in a disclosure package shared with David Stephan under Stinchcombe obligations, it is revealed that the RCMP launched an investigation into Adeagbo following that publication by FF12, where American defence attorney Dan Monnat characterized the inconsistencies in Adeagbo’s medical credentials as “red flags that should suggest to you, me, and the defence attorney that this expert witness is not qualified.”
“Alberta Justice needs to be vetting their expert witnesses a lot more,” Stephan says.
Even though his wrongful conviction was later overturned, he says the ordeal of Alberta Crown Prosecution Service utilizing a fraudulent medical examiner cost his family over a million dollars, 10 years of their lives, and jeopardized their ability to be the parents they wanted to be.
According to the disclosure from Alberta Justice to David, the RCMP found the following inconsistencies in Adeagbo’s CV, which was relied upon by Alberta Crown prosecutors:
Adeagbo claimed he worked at Fox Chase Medical Center, the Salvation Army, Warren E. Smith Health Center, and Progressions Health System, but according to the RCMP’s investigation, they were unable to locate any confirmation of his employment at these places, and his name did not appear in their human resources databases.
The 2,000+ page disclosure package also reveals that Alberta Crown Prosecution Service hired Sheila Bilodeau Brown, K.C., to review dozens of Adeagbo-related files and concluded that no miscarriage of justice occurred.
While American legal experts say Adeagbo, who conducted almost 5,000 autopsies in Alberta, is not a qualified expert witness, Alberta Crown prosecutors beg to differ. It has investigated itself and decided he was qualified. After all, an adverse conclusion would open itself to significant liability.
But David Stephan says he can speak effectively to his case and says, “There is an absolute miscarriage of justice. I was wrongfully convicted and went to jail.”
As a remedy, Stephan suggests that every case Adeagbo took part in needs to be reinvestigated, and that compensation be made to the victims of his fallacious testimonies because of wrongful findings in his autopsy reports: “There may be people in jail right now who aren’t supposed to be in jail because of him.”
If Alberta Crown prosecutors relied on Adeagbo’s credentials in criminal proceedings, should Albertans be expected to trust the same prosecution service to determine whether that reliance caused miscarriages of justice?
A more comprehensive report will be coming later regarding the 2,000+ pages of disclosure from the RCMP’s investigation into Bamidale Adeagbo.
You can watch the following videos to learn more about how self-proclaimed doctor from Nigeria Bamidale Adeagbo, whose foreign medical diploma U.S. authorities were unable to primary-source verify, is accused of compromising police investigations and causing wrongful convictions of innocent people in Canada and the U.S.
https://youtu.be/k8bimhKqjgQ
https://youtu.be/WiYVZ5FYkZ0
https://youtu.be/gblLNDyHkJ0
Other reports:
https://youtu.be/U11_5em9Rcs
https://youtu.be/muEd6FmWBFo
https://youtu.be/QkqFCMY-vmg
https://youtu.be/kdaF0hJoKJU
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