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 1989after 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 wasincluded in the Lamerinquiry examining wrongfulconvictions,was acquitted following a retrial by judge and jury in 2000.

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

Breensaid Wednesday that Dunphy's daughter has lost faith in the RCMPinvestigation andwants an outside police force to investigate. Breen'srequest to the RCMP and the Justice and PublicSafety 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 Ithink 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 eachother," 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 RCMPareinvestigating.