Parole hearing for school girl killer Paul Bernardo

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Parole hearing for school girl killer Paul Bernardo
By Maryam Shah, Toronto Sun
First posted: Monday, October 31, 2016 10:03 PM EDT | Updated: Monday, October 31, 2016 10:51 PM EDT
School girl killer Paul Bernardo has a day parole hearing tentatively set for March, the Toronto Sun has learned.
Bernardo was sentenced in 1995 to life in prison with no parole for 25 years for the horrific sex slayings of teens Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French.
Lawyer Tim Danson, who represents the Mahaffy and French families, said he believes the system will work.
“I don’t believe that Paul Bernardo will ever be paroled, now or in the future,” Danson said Monday night.
“Having said that, remember, I represent the victims of Paul Bernardo, and so we will take nothing for granted, we will be very vigilant.”
His clients and the public are entitled to “all the evidence” Bernardo will rely upon to “persuade the parole board that he’s no longer a threat to public safety,” Danson added.
Prominent Toronto criminal lawyer Edward Prutschi, who has no connection to the case, said he’s also confident Bernardo will not taste freedom anytime soon.
“He’s the poster child for incarceration in Canada,” Prutschi said. “If there’s one person who personifies the desire to actually see somebody serve the rest of their life behind bars, it’s Paul Bernardo.”
Prutschi added that the parole system is designed not for the likes of Bernardo, but for the large number of prisoners who have a chance of rehabilitation after release.
“The likelihood of that person ever receiving parole, to me, is essentially no. I have sufficient faith in the parole system that it won’t happen,” Prutschi said in a tweet.
Bernardo also confessed to sex assaulting 14 women in what earlier had become known as the case of the Scarborough Rapist.
Bernardo was assisted in the sex slayings his then-wife, Karla Homolka, who was sentenced to 12 years in prison for manslaughter. She is now living a quiet life in Quebec, according to media reports.
— with files from Terry Davidson
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[Remington1]

He won't win, it's a promenade day, this fuc#k face will die in prison. He's probably hoping to get a restaurant meal out of the outing and a glance at some teenage girl. IF he should ever be released, there would be civil outrage that this country has not seen for a long long time. It's bad enough his bi%$ ch of a wife got off free.

 

[lone wolf]

To use an oft-repeated phrase: Just say NO....

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

The only place he should be released to is to a rifle range to be used as a target.

 

[TenPenny]

The only place he should be released to is to a rifle range to be used as a target.

And then tie his dead body to Karla, or whatever name she goes by now.

 

[darkbeaver]

He should have been hung in public.

 

[coldstream]

Frankly, this is a case that should bring in Life without Parole, for aggravated, multiple murders. Putting the families of the school girls through the torment of testifying at Parole hearings is a travesty. As far as i am aware he has been labelled a 'Dangerous Offender'.. which means parole is not obligatory.. Ever.

 

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Schoolgirl killer Paul Bernardo a first to consent to D.O. designation: Lawyer
By Sam Pazzano, Toronto Sun
First posted: Tuesday, November 01, 2016 06:23 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, November 01, 2016 08:32 PM EDT
Schoolgirl killer and serial rapist Paul Bernardo is the only known Canadian offender to consent to being declared a dangerous offender, says a well-known Toronto defence lawyer.
Dan Brodsky, who often represents dangerous offender candidates, said Bernardo agreed to the designation because it “has the tactical advantage of not airing the facts (of the crimes) and no psychiatric assessment.
“He was taken to Royal Ottawa Hospital for an assessment, but no report was prepared,” said Brodsky.
When Bernardo consented to the declaration and its indeterminate sentence in November 1995, Bernardo pleaded guilty to a slate of rapes in Scarborough and St. Catharines and the manslaughter of Tammy Homolka.
Bernardo was already serving his life sentence for the first-degree murders of Leslie Mahaffy, 14, and Kristen French, 15. As a result, the dangerous offender declaration did not change his parole eligibility.
Dangerous offenders can seek release on parole seven years after the date of their offences, but Bernardo was prohibited from doing so because of his murder sentence.
Bernardo, now 52, who’ll tentatively be applying for day parole in March 2017, has been eligible to make such an application since Feb. 17, 2015.
He will be eligible to pursue full parole in February 2018, which is the 25th anniversary of his arrest date.
Bernardo has never applied for parole before but confessed to Toronto Police in April 2006 about crimes he was never charged with.
The confession occurred while Toronto detectives interviewed him as a possible suspect in the murder of Liz Bain, of Toronto. Bernardo admitted he stalked a neighbouring family in Scarborough, broke into their home in 1987 and terrorized a 15-year-old girl at knifepoint when her light-sleeping mom intervened.
Bernardo bolted and stole the victim’s licence plate as a souvenir.
spazzano@postmedia.com
Schoolgirl killer Paul Bernardo a first to consent to D.O. designation: Lawyer |

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Maybe if he pinkie-swears to only attack Muslim girls. . .