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A lawyer representing the households of two teenage ladies murdered by infamous killer and serial rapist Paul Bernardo says they’ve been denied the best to ship their sufferer influence statements in particular person at Bernardo’s upcoming parole listening to.
In a letter despatched to the Parole Board of Canada chairperson and others, lawyer Tim Danson says he was not too long ago knowledgeable the victims’ households received’t be capable of attend the Nov. 26 listening to at La Macaza Establishment in Quebec as a result of the board was “unable to ensure safety and security of all hearing attendees.”
Danson says the households are demanding that the listening to be adjourned to subsequent month or another date so that they and their legal professionals can journey to La Macaza and browse their sufferer influence statements in particular person.
Bernardo was transferred from the maximum-security Millhaven Establishment in Ontario to the medium-security La Macaza in final yr, a choice that prompted public outcry.
Bernardo, who’s designated as a harmful offender, is serving an indeterminate life sentence for the kidnapping, sexual assault and homicide of 15-year-old Kristen French of St. Catharines and 14-year-old Leslie Mahaffy of Burlington within the early Nineties close to St. Catharines, Ont.
He was additionally convicted of manslaughter within the December 1990 dying of his then-wife Karla Homolka’s 15-year-old sister, Tammy.
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