Air India bomb-maker released from halfway house; now considered 'low risk' by National Parole Board

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...d-low-risk-by-national-parole-board-1.3982410

The only person convicted in the 1985 Air India bombing has been released from a halfway house and is now free to live where he chooses, according to a new decision from the Parole Board of Canada.

Inderjit Singh Reyat is currently serving a seven-year sentence after being convicted of perjury in 2010 for repeatedly lying during his testimony at a trial into the bombing deaths of 331 people. The parole board says that resulted in his co-accused not being convicted in Canada's worst mass murder.

In January 2016, Reyat was given statutory release after serving two-thirds of his sentence and was expected to be closely monitored at a halfway house at an undisclosed location for another 18 months.

"The fact that he is still holding back, it's absolutely ridiculous that the parole board will let him out," said André Gerolymatos, co-director of terrorism, risk and security studies at Simon Fraser University. "You have to wonder what the parole board is smoking."

smfh

 

[Victorian Gray]

That article is somewhat misleading. He was not released on a parole board decision, he was released under this:

"Statutory release is a mandatory release by law. It is not parole and is not a decision of the Parole Board of Canada. By law, most offenders (except those serving a life or indeterminate sentence) must be released by the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) with supervision after serving 2/3's of their sentence, if parole has not already been granted.

Offenders on SR are required to follow standard conditions which include reporting to a parole officer, remaining within geographic boundaries, and obeying the law and keeping the peace. The Parole Board can also impose special conditions specific to the offender. In some instances offenders on SR are required to reside in a halfway house or community correctional centre operated by CSC.
Statutory release aims to provide offenders structure and support before their sentence expires to improve the chances of their successful reintegration into the community. Offenders can be returned to custody if they violate their conditions of release or are believed to present an undue risk to the public.

CSC can refer SR cases to the Parole Board for detention until the end of the sentence. The Board may, in specific cases where the legal criteria are met, order these offenders to be detained in prison until the end of their sentence."

here's the actual document from Jan. 26

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3461722/Reyat-Parole-1.pdf

Having posted that information, in my opinion, it's too bad he's getting out.

 

[sdifox]

are you just posting random fake outrage story and then abandoning them?