16 years later, this Toronto gunman has confessed his story was a ‘lie.’ What does it mean for the man who says he was wrongfully convicted?

One of two men convicted of first-degree murder in the death of a Toronto furniture maker 16 years ago has changed his story in a reversal that could have major consequences for Christopher Sheriffe — the co-accused man who continues to argue his conviction was a “miscarriage of justice.”

Awet Asfaha had long maintained his innocence in the shooting of Bishen Golaub outside a neighbourhood barbecue on Mount Olive Drive in Etobicoke on a sweltering afternoon in August 2009. In a profanity-laced police interview and at trial, he claimed he knew nothing about the murder, and a mysterious man on the street was the real shooter.