Ed Schreyer owned the Walnut Street home but did not live there. Damage to the house and its contents was estimated between $250,000 and $275,000.
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Arson charges have been stayed against the son of a former Manitoba premier, after he was accused of torching his own home.
Toban Schreyer, now 36, was arrested in 2008 after the Wolseley house he inhabited his wife and three kids was destroyed by fire.
Court of Queen's Bench Justice Deborah McCawley ended Toban Schreyer's three-year court battle last week by ruling that the statement of police officers who interrogated him inadmissible. Without that evidence, the charges were stayed.
Schreyer's schizophrenia led police to target him and was also used against him in the interrogation, lawyers argued.
Toban's father Edward Schreyer was NDP premier of Manitoba from 1969-77, and Governor General of Canada from 1978-84.
Ed Schreyer owned the Walnut Street home but did not live there. Damage to the house and its contents was estimated between $250,000 and $275,000.
