A criminal who went on to murder three men after being paroled was released in part because board members didn't think his history of armed robberies counted as violence.
Corrections Canada commissioner Ole Ingstrup told the Commons justice committee yesterday that two board members who granted day parole to Michael Hector, and two who gave him full parole, felt he did not qualify as violent because he never fired his gun during the robberies.
The laws and sentencing statutes all define armed robbery as a serious crime of violence, and Ingstrup said parole board members have now been "instructed" on this point.
2/27/98
The Toronto Sun, February 27, 1998:
