VANCOUVER – A B.C. inmate sent to maximum-security prison has used Canada’s Charter of Rights to gain a bit more freedom.
Dillan Butler was serving a three-year sentence for manslaughter in the medium-security Matsqui Institution in Abbotsford when he was transferred after a stabbing to the more secure Kent prison in Agassiz.
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Prison officials claimed he was the aggressor in the 2008 stabbing, but Butler said in his B.C. Supreme Court application that the transfer decision deprived him of his “residual liberty.”
Butler claimed he wasn’t given the opportunity to defend himself and was denied information including the surveillance camera video of the incident.
But the video doesn’t show the stabbing and B.C. Supreme Court Justice Nathan Smith agreed with Butler, saying the process was unfair and ordered that he be returned to the medium-security institution.
Butler was 18 when he stabbed 15-year-old Deward Pointe to death in Vancouver.
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