WINNIPEG – More than a year after he was acquitted of murdering his wife, Mark Stobbe is holding a book launch at McNally Robinson Booksellers at 7 p.m. Monday.
Stobbe’s book, Lessons From Remand, is about the nearly two months he spent in jail after his arrest in 2008.
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Stobbe, once an advisor to former Manitoba premier Gary Doer and before that, former Saskatchewan premier Roy Romanow, was acquitted of second-degree murder in 2012.
His wife, Beverly Rowbotham, 42, was found dead on Oct. 25, 2000. Her body was found in the family sedan, parked near a Selkirk, Man., gas station.
Stobbe, who was a senior communications official with the Manitoba government when Rowbotham was killed, wasn’t charged until May 2008.
At his trial, autopsy reports showed Rowbotham had 16 head wounds, and blood, hair and bone fragments were found in the family’s backyard in St. Andrews, but the Crown was unable to prove its contention Stobbe killed her.
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