July 10, 2012 - 11:59 AM
WINNIPEG - Criminal charges will not be laid in the death of a Winnipeg man who waited for 33 hours in a hospital emergency room.
Police say an external review by the Crown attorney's office in Saskatchewan has found no basis for laying charges in the death of Brian Sinclair.
Sinclair was a 45-year-old double amputee who died of a treatable gall bladder infection in September 2008.
Hospital security tape showed Sinclair went to the triage desk and spoke to an aide before wheeling himself into the waiting room.
Some 33 hours later, another person in the waiting room approached a security guard to say Sinclair appeared to be dead.
Winnipeg police say more than 170 people were interviewed during a 10-month investigation.
News from © The Canadian Press, 2012