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Divorce proceedings between Russell Williams and wife to be made public

TORONTO - The public can now learn more about divorce proceedings between convicted sex killer Russell Williams and his estranged wife.

That's because key elements of a sweeping publication ban have been lifted.

An Ontario Court of Appeal set the ban aside and Mary Elizabeth Harriman has not made a request to the Supreme Court to reverse the decision.

With parts of the ban lifted, Harriman's name, employer and income, among other things, can now be made public.

But still banned are her social insurance number, date of birth, bank account number and a domestic contract the couple signed about six weeks after Williams was charged with first-degree murder.

Williams -- once the commander of Canadian Forces Base Trenton -- was sentenced to life in prison in October, 2010 after pleading guilty to the murders of two women.

He was also convicted of two sexual assaults and dozens of fetish break-ins.

Harriman's lawyer had argued that making the divorce proceedings public would cause her client more harm than she's already experienced.

Meanwhile, a coalition of media groups argued that there was a real public interest in knowing how the proceedings were going to divide assets like Williams' military pension.

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