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Glen Eugene Assoun is shown in a photo provided by his lawyers on Oct. 17, 2014.The Canadian Press

A Nova Scotia man whose life sentence may have been the result of a wrongful murder conviction has been granted bail.

Glen Eugene Assoun was convicted by a jury of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison in September, 1999, for the stabbing death of Brenda Lee Anne Way, who was his girlfriend.

The federal Justice Department said recently that a preliminary assessment shows there may have been a miscarriage of justice and a more in-depth investigation has been launched into his case.

Judge James Chipman of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court ruled Monday that Assoun should be released on conditions, including one that requires him to stay with family in an undisclosed province and another that will see him electronically monitored.

Assoun also has to relinquish his passport, meet with a parole officer weekly and report any intimate relationships he has with women.

In granting Assoun bail, Chipman said he is not considered a risk to himself or others.

Way's partly clothed body was found behind an apartment building in the Halifax area on Nov. 12, 1995. The 28-year-old woman had been stabbed six times and her throat was slashed.

Assoun, who was living in British Columbia when he was arrested more than two years later, has always said he was wrongfully convicted of the crime.

"He has not deviated from his assertion of innocence by a hair," Philip Campbell, Assoun's lawyer, said Monday.

Assoun represented himself at his trial after firing his lawyer three days in to the court proceedings.

His sentence included a provision that he couldn't apply for parole until he served 18 1/2 years in prison.

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