The reduction flows from the Supreme Court of Canada’s unanimous rejection of a federal law that allowed judges to close the door on parole for mass killers
of Canada’s unanimous rejection of a federal law that allowed judges to close the door on parole for mass killers.
The prosecution in Mr. Bourque’s case initially asked for and received the 75-year waiting period for him. But it did not object to the reduction in his punishment, which a three-judge panel of the New Brunswick Court of Appeal said it was “duty-bound” to impose, because the Supreme Court had declared such sentences unconstitutional. His parole ineligibility period was reduced to 25 years, of which he has already served nine.
“That horrendous crime will be still so fresh in the minds of victims and the community that 15 years from now I think his chances will be slim – not impossible,” Ms. Campbell said. Mr. Lovie was released on day parole after 28 years, and allowed at 31 years to sleep in his own apartment four nights a week. Considering Mr. Lovie’s release, Mr. Edwards said, he expects Mr. Bourque to be granted parole.
Mr. Bourque is now the latest member of a national gallery of mass killers – men who murdered small children, the elderly, intimate partners, the homeless, Muslim worshippers – to benefit from a reduction to 25 years of parole ineligibility.
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