Parole Board

• ‘Balaclava rapist’ Larry Takahashi granted full parole

  A serial sex offender known as the "balaclava rapist" for attacking 23 women in Edmonton more than 40 years ago has been granted full parole.

  Crime

  Jul 15
  
• Ottawa ‘committed’ to parole board changes after scathing report

  The investigation found “irrefutable evidence” that a board member sexually harassed four women employees over eight years beginning in 2014. 

  Canada

  May 29
  
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• Matthew McKnight, convicted Edmonton sex offender, granted day parole

  A former Edmonton club promoter who was convicted in 2020 of sexually assaulting five women in Edmonton has been granted day parole.

  Canada

  Feb 26
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• Parole denied for Okanagan man who beat elderly mother, dumped her down embankment

  The parole board said he deflects responsibility for the violence he directed on his mother by suggesting "her dementia contributed to her behaviour."

  Crime

  May 26, 2023
• Parole board suggests charging sex offender Randall Hopley

  More than four years after Randall Hopley finished his sentence for abducting a B.C. boy, the parole board is recommending charges for not complying with supervision orders.

  Crime

  Jan 9, 2023
• South Okanagan dangerous offender to stay behind bars

  The designation of dangerous offended is reserved for 'the most dangerous' and 'sexual predators' in Canada, according to Public Safety Canada on its website.

  Crime

  Dec 16, 2022
• B.C. man who killed stranger on bus released from custody on unrelated assault charges

  Hours after he was the subject of a B.C.-wide warrant on Oct. 6, Tyler Jack Newton, 31, was arrested by Kelowna RCMP.

  Crime

  Oct 24, 2022
• Former parole board member, Winnipeg cop, says he’s surprised stabbing suspect got parole

  A former member of the Parole Board of Canada says he's surprised the suspect in Sunday’s deadly stabbing rampage in Saskatchewan was given parole.

  Crime

  Sep 7, 2022
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• Alberta family pleads and petitions to keep BC mass murderer behind bars

  A man convicted of murdering six people in 1982 could get day parole. David Shearing (Ennis) plans to live in the Calgary area.

  Canada

  Apr 1, 2021
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• Convicted B.C. gangster Jarrod Bacon released from prison again

  Bacon, a former member of the Red Scorpions and one of the Bacon Brothers' gang was imprisoned in 2012 on drug charges.

  Crime

  Mar 19, 2021