The Parole Board of Canada has denied day release for a man who beat and sexually assaulted a girl and a woman in separate random attacks in Winnipeg a decade ago.
The board says it has concerns about Justin Hudson’s struggles with mental health and addiction issues, as well as his recent assault on another inmate.
The board is encouraging Hudson to work with a psychiatrist.
Justin Hudson was sentenced to 23 years for the high-profile assaults he and a cousin committed in 2014.
Hudson and the cousin robbed, beat and sexually assaulted a 16-year-old girl before she ended up in the frigid Assiniboine River.
She later became an advocate for the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
Hours later, Hudson and his cousin repeatedly beat and sexually assaulted a 23-year-old woman.
Hudson and the cousin, Robert McKay, each pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated sexual assault.
McKay, who was 17 at the time, was sentenced as an adult to 17 years.