LaPierre can’t apply for parole for 17 years
Posted Jan 21, 2010 05:24:31 PM.
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A Superior Court judge says 24-year-old Trevor LaPierre is as dangerous today as he was when he killed a Kitchener senior delivering Christmas cards in 2007.
LaPierre has been sentenced to life imprisonment at a mental health facility inside Kingston Penitentiary, and his parole in eligibility is set at 17 years from the time of his arrest.
That works out to December 18, 2024, says Superior Court Justice C.S. Glithero.
Glithero says Lapierre “stymied himself” when he tried to manipulate doctors to get a mental health diagnosis that would ease the legal consequences of his stabbing 74-year old Hunter Brown to death in 2007.
The judge said without a certain diagnosis of a mental health problem, he has no reason to believe there is a cure or treatment for LaPierre.
Brown was out delivering Christmas Cards when LaPierre attacked him with a 7-inch blade, stabbing him over forty times in the head and face.
Hunter’s widow, Bev, was overcome with emotion, as she spoke to reporters outside the court, but said it was the sentence she hoped LaPierre would get.
The judge also said in his sentencing he was skeptical of real remorse when LaPierre said sorry for the crime on Day 2 of the three-day trial.
