Former N.S. fugitive granted full parole for 2011 shooting death in Halifax
Steven Douglas Skinner is out of prison on full parole after fatally shooting another man in Nova Scotia and spending five years as a fugitive in South America.
The Parole Board of Canada granted the man full parole in mid-February, after he met day parole expectations and made changes to mitigate the risk of reoffending, it said. Skinner was sentenced to 11 years in prison for manslaughter in September 2019 after shooting Stacey Adams in Lake Echo, N.S., in April of 2011.He was initially charged with second-degree murder but pleaded guilty to the manslaughter charge after a deal was struck between Crown prosecutors and his defence lawyer. At the time of his sentencing, Skinner was given five years credit for the time he spent in custody awaiting trial, leaving six years to serve on his prison sentence.
In October 2021, he was granted a six-month day parole with strict conditions, including living in a halfway house he had to return to nightly.In a Parole Board of Canada decision dated Feb. 15, Skinner was granted full parole. In its reasons for that decision, the board said Skinner grew up in a positive household and his family remains supportive of him. He began using alcohol and drugs as a teen, and was under the influence when he committed the offence.The board said 2019 victim impact statements revealed the “grief and anguish suffered by the members of the victim’s family as a result of actions.
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