HALIFAX - A former Nova Scotia businessman has been granted bail while he appeals his convictions for molesting two boys in the 1970s.
Justice Joel Fichaud of the Nova Court of Appeal ruled today that 67-year-old Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh would be under house arrest at his residence in Halifax, and permitted brief outings for his medical appointments and to purchase groceries.
MacIntosh must also put up $60,000 and a property he owns in Port Hawkesbury as surety while he waits for his appeal to be heard, which is set for May 10.
The former telecommunications executive has been in jail since July 20 when he was convicted by a Nova Scotia Supreme Court justice of 13 charges of indecent assault and gross indecency.
In September, Justice Simon MacDonald gave him a four-year sentence, calling the crimes "repugnant" and saying it was important to send the message that society abhors the abuse of children.
MacIntosh received two years' credit for his time in remand, leaving him only two years less a day to serve on his sentence.
