Notorious killer Paul Bernardo scheduled to have parole hearing this month

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Notorious killer Paul Bernardo scheduled to have parole hearing this month
Bernardo was convicted in 1995 of the murders of Tammy Homolka, Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy.

Author of the articleaul Cherry • Montreal Gazette
Published Nov 05, 2024 • Last updated 5 days ago • 1 minute read

Paul Bernardo, one of Canada’s most notorious criminals, is scheduled to have a hearing before the Parole Board of Canada later this month.


Although his crimes were carried out in Ontario, Bernardo was transferred to a federal penitentiary in Quebec last year.

He is serving an indefinite sentence as a dangerous offender. He was convicted of the kidnapping, sexual assault and murders of 15-year-old Kristen French and 14-year-old Leslie Mahaffy in the early 1990s near St. Catharines, Ont. His trial for the murders shocked Canada because of the cold-blooded nature of the slayings.

He was also convicted of manslaughter in the December 1990 death of his then-wife Karla Homolka’s 15-year-old sister, Tammy. Homolka pleaded guilty to manslaughter for her role in the crimes against French and Mahaffy and received a 12-year sentence. She was released from prison in 2005.


Bernardo has also admitted to sexually assaulting 14 other women.

The parole hearing is scheduled to be held on Nov. 26.

It will be Bernardo’s third attempt at parole. When he was rejected in 2018, the parole board determined that he “showed minimal insight” into his crimes.

In 2021, the National Post reported that Bernardo was rejected again after he asked for full parole and anti-sex drive medication, also known as chemical castration.

His transfer last year to a penitentiary in Quebec touched off a controversy because he was moved from a maximum-security penitentiary in Ontario to a medium-security institution in Quebec.

This created a political firestorm, and the commissioner of Correctional Service Canada was called to appear before a parliamentary committee to explain the decision late last year.

pcherry@postmedia.com

Notorious killer Paul Bernardo scheduled to have parole hearing this month

Bernardo was convicted in 1995 of the murders of Tammy Homolka, Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy.

torontosun.com

 

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Schoolgirl killer Paul Bernardo seeks parole for third time

Author of the article:Michele Mandel
Published Nov 05, 2024 • Last updated 4 days ago • 3 minute read

For the first time since his shocking transfer to medium security, sadistic murderer Paul Bernardo is seeking parole yet again.


Now housed in the cushy La Macaza Institution in rural Quebec, the serial rapist and killer of schoolgirls Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French is set to have his third parole hearing on the morning of Nov. 26.

There is no mercy for the families he has destroyed as he drags them through yet another bid at freedom.

“It seems that just as the ink had dried on our previous victim impact statement, Doug and I have to muster up the strength to prepare a second statement,” Donna French had said at Bernardo’s last parole hearing in 2021.

And now she must prepare a third.

“It feels like another exhumation, another violation, another loss,” Debbie Mahaffy told the board at that second hearing less than three years after the first. “What does resting in peace mean when we have to relive these horrors every two years or so for the rest of our lives?”


Much has happened since the last time the notorious killer failed in his delusional attempt at release: Kristen’s father Doug died in April at the age of 92, the Supreme Court refused to hear the families’ request to win access to his prison records — despite their being used by the parole board to make its decisions — and most shocking of all, Bernardo was quietly transferred out of maximum security in 2023.

The move from Millhaven sparked understandable outrage across the country. Most of us assumed he would live out the rest of his miserable days behind the bars of a maximum-security prison after he was declared a dangerous offender and sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years for kidnapping, torturing and killing 14-year-old Leslie in 1991 and 15-year-old Kristen in 1992.

Bernardo was also found guilty of the manslaughter and sexual assault of his 15-year-old sister-in-law, Tammy Homolka, and has admitted raping 14 other women. If anyone seemed destined to be a lifer in maximum, it was the doughy former accountant.


Bernardo was nothing if not determined. He’d been trying to get out of a maximum-security prison since 1999, but his reclassification was overridden 13 times. In July 2022, though, he was suddenly considered successfully “integrated” with other inmates and reclassified in February 2023 to medium security.

His transfer to La Macaza, near Mont Tremblant, was approved a month later.

But no one bothered to tell his victims’ families that after almost 30 years, their daughters’ remorseless killer was getting sprung from maximum. They were only informed on the morning of May 29, 2023, just hours before Bernardo was on his merry way to the comfortable medium-security prison which is also home to cannibal killer Luka Magnotta and Tori Stafford’s slayer, Michael Rafferty.


A review by Corrections Canada concluded the transfer decision was “sound” but should have been shared earlier with Bernardo’s victims.

More than a year has passed, the furor has died down, so of course it was time for the narcissistic psychopath to toy with his victims again and schedule another stab at parole.

At his 2021 hearing, his parole officer said Bernardo had made no progress since his first hearing in October 2018, and that he remained a high-risk sex offender.

Armed with a sheaf of papers, Bernardo offered a rambling, self-absorbed, jargon-filled, 30-minute soliloquy on why he was a changed man and yet so misunderstood. “Without a doubt, (I’m) low risk because I’ve stopped all sexual deviant behaviour,” he proclaimed.


The reviled sex killer proposed moving to an Ontario halfway house to be closer to his elderly parents, but for the sake of his victims’ families, he’d consider B.C. where he was prepared to take any menial job, even picking fruit.

After deliberating less than an hour, Bernardo’s second parole bid was denied. “Your understanding and insight remains limited, and as a result … you remain to be a high risk for sexual reoffending.”

Will he have a more sympathetic parole board this time around? Will the third time be the charm?

That sounds crazy. But so was imagining that this monster would ever get out of maximum security.

mmandel@postmedia.com

MANDEL: Schoolgirl killer Paul Bernardo seeks parole for third time

For the first time since his shocking transfer to a medium-security prison, sadistic murderer Paul Bernardo is seeking parole yet again.

torontosun.com

 

[spaminator]

i hope this monster never gets out.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Free Bernardo NOW! He's being persecuted because he's a straight White man!

 

[petros]

Free Bernardo NOW! He's being persecuted because he's a straight White man!

Straight? You sure? The article says "he'prepared to take any menial job, even picking fruit". There are machines and Grindr for that now.

I guess hes been in the pokey so long that he doesn't know Quebec gays dont go to the Okanagan to pick fruit for the OK Fruit Union and live in the picker's huts by the tracks where they drink cider and play bum darts all night any longer.

 

[TheShadow]

i hope this monster never gets out.

I can't see him ever getting out.

 

[Ron in Regina]

Paul Bernardo parole hearing 'working to accommodate' victims' families in person — Global News

A lawyer representing the families of Bernardo's teenage victims earlier said his clients' requests to attend the parole hearing in person had been denied.

apple.news

Families of victims who were murdered by notorious serial killer and rapist Paul Bernardo have been barred from attending his upcoming parole hearing in person, according to the families’ lawyer.

Bernardo, who is serving a life sentence and was transferred from maximum- to medium-security prison last year, is scheduled to appear for a parole hearing next week at Quebec’s La Macaza prison.

LINK, etc…

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

I can see the outcome has likely already been predetermined so don't want messy recollections of his victims marring the festivities.

 

[Ron in Regina]

Bernardo is serving an indefinite sentence for the abductions and murders of 14-year-old Leslie Mahaffy, of Burlington, Ont. in 1991 and 15-year-old Kristen French, of St. Catharines, Ont. in 1992. He also admitted to crimes he was not convicted of and conceded he sexually assaulted about 20 girls and women between the ages of 14 and 23, between 1987 and 1992, and that he sexually assaulted and caused the death of his former wife Karla Homolka’s sister, Tammy, while she was drugged.

Killer Paul Bernardo seeks release to halfway house in St-Jérôme or Montreal — Montreal Gazette

Makes third appearance before Parole Board of Canada.

apple.news

Paul Bernardo, one of Canada’s most notorious criminals, hopes to be released to a halfway house in Quebec, and possibly Montreal, if he is granted a release during his parole hearing on Tuesday.

A parole officer revealed this to the Parole Board of Canada while making a recommendation, on behalf of Correctional Service Canada, that Bernardo, 60, be denied both day and full parole for a third time.

The parole officer said Bernardo’s first choice is to be released to a halfway house in St-Jérôme and that his second choice would be one in Montreal.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

I just got a news alert that the parole was denied.

 

[petros]

I just got a news alert that the parole was denied.

Of course it was. Hes not getting out alive.