Notorious slayer Paul Bernardo is scheduled to look earlier the Parole Board of Canada connected Tuesday for a hearing.
Bernardo, who was denied parole doubly successful the past, is serving an indeterminate beingness condemnation for the kidnapping, intersexual battle and execution of 15-year-old Kristen French and 14-year-old Leslie Mahaffy successful the aboriginal 1990s adjacent St. Catharines, Ont.
He was besides convicted of manslaughter successful the December 1990 decease of his then-wife Karla Homolka’s 15-year-old sister, Tammy.
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Bernardo’s proceeding is acceptable to instrumentality spot astatine the medium-security La Macaza Institution successful Quebec, aft his transportation determination from a maximum-security Ontario prison caused nationalist outcry past year.
Tim Danson, a lawyer representing the French and Mahaffy families, said the parole committee initially denied his clients the close to present their unfortunate interaction statements successful idiosyncratic astatine the hearing.
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After the committee reversed its decision, Danson said the deficiency of clip to marque due question arrangements means lone Mahaffy’s parent volition beryllium present, portion others volition present their statements remotely.
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