Sex killer John Lee Jr. believes that he should be freed from prison, even though experts still believe he poses a high risk to commit new, violent crimes. The Parole Board of Canada says Lee was “superficial, grandiose and lacking in insight” when he demanded release during his latest parole hearing, held March 25 this year at the medium-security prison in Ontario where Lee is serving his life sentence. The parole board refused to grant Lee (inset in 1986) any form of freedom, after concluding that he’s still too dangerous.
An imprisoned career bandit who has amassed nearly 200 criminal convictions, and who shot three policemen in a bloody bank heist in Ontario in 1994 has won a chance at another payday, courtesy of Canada’s top court. The 
Serial child killer Clifford Olson’s claim – if you can believe it – that he won’t seek parole again, is a relief to the families of his victims. On her 
An imprisoned former hockey coach who exploited a 14-year-old girl for sex has lost a second bid for freedom. At a hearing in April, 45-year-old Daniel McLellan of Kingston, Ontario, was denied parole. McLellan didn’t like the decision and sought to have it overturned. The appeal division of the Parole Board of Canada rejected his plea for reconsideration (read the decision after the jump) meaning he’ll stay behind bars.
Outrage 
A double cop killer has been denied parole after a hearing in which he was “evasive,” “condescending” and “sarcastic,” a document obtained by Cancrime shows. Richard Ambrose, who murdered two Moncton, New Brunswick police officers – along with accomplice James Hutchison – in 1974, appeared this month before two members of the National Parole Board at a hearing held in Alberta, where he’s serving a life sentence in prison. Ambrose and Hutchison killed Cpl. Aurele Bourgeois and Const. Michael O’Leary in a horrifying slaying that earned them a trip to the gallows. They were spared the death penalty when capital punishment was abolished in Canada in 1976.
Axe murderer Francis Clancy threw “temper tantrums” and was resistant to a drug treatment program in the community, but the National Parole Board has decided to extend his parole (doc after the jump) anyway. He’s now living at a halfway house on Victoria Island, in British Columbia, far from Ottawa, Ontario, where he savagely murdered 29-year-old Iain Irvine in 1983. The board says Clancy is “highly motivated” to succeed on release, although when he’s been confronted about the murder that put him in prison for life, he can’t really explain why he did it.
Corrections Canada says it’s not legally liable for injuries suffered by an imprisoned outlaw biker because he was exercising with a makeshift barbell built with bags of water. The claim is contained in a statement of defence filed last week in a Kingston court in response to a lawsuit launched in May by Carl Thomas Bursey, who is behind bars at Kingston Penitentiary for drug dealing. The 
Killers get out of prison, even when they refuse to tell the truth and accept responsibility for what they have done. Gary Gilbert Foshay (inset) dragged a 48-year-old mother of six from a car along the side of a highway near London, Ontario 26 years ago – on July 5, 1984 – and fired at point blank range, into her left temple, as she begged for her life. Hanna Buxbaum’s murder had been arranged by her cocaine snorting, prostitute-loving husband, who was in the car with her that day. Helmuth Buxbaum paid local hoodlums for the hit. Four men, in addition to Buxbaum, were involved in the conspiracy. Foshay did the dirty work.
The National Parole Board seems to be backpedaling in the case of Brenda Martin. She’s the Ontario woman who was spirited back to Canada from Mexico in May 2008, after her teary pleas that her conviction in Mexico in a multimillion dollar Internet fraud was a sham. She spent a week in prison in Canada and was paroled – that’s pretty quick turnaround. Martin was released from prison last month, after her second screwup while on parole. The record of the decision to free her again (available in full after the jump), shows that the board keeps pressing Martin to admit she has a booze problem, but “to this day, you are not convinced that you have an alcohol problem.” The board doesn’t say, flat out, that it doesn’t believe her, but you can determine what they think, for yourself, by reading between the lines.
