On Thursday, Munro will plead for his freedom at a parole tribunal near Chilliwack, B.C. Munro, 58, first submitted an application for parole more than a decade ago, but withdrew the request in May 1997 after an intense media backlash.
Thursday's hearing will take place at his minimum-security prison, Kwikwexwelhp Healing Village, which puts aboriginal spirituality at the centre of its rehabilitation program. Munro is not aboriginal but has converted to native teachings.
... About 20 minutes earlier, 28-year-old Munro and his brother, Jamie, 21, had walked into George's Bourbon Street restaurant and told everyone to hit the floor.
When Sweet went inside to investigate, he was blasted once in the chest with a shotgun. The father of three was left to bleed to death on the floor for more than an hour as the Emergency Task Force tried to negotiate with the Munro brothers, who reportedly taunted the dying officer, drank and took heroin.
... The younger Munro was released on parole in 1992.
So, commit armed robbery and kill a cop (to say nothing of the spill-over effects on others present at the crime scene), and one of you will be out of jail in around ten years, while the other one gets to hang out in a minimum security "healing village". If I ever decide to inaugurate a Gardner Award, this one's certainly going to be in the running.
It's a pity the ETF didn't ensure there would be no need for any parole hearings for these two murdering scum. Not that they didn't try...
Posted by: Mike H | February 27, 2009 at 05:48 AM