No early parole in Kitchener double murder
Posted May 12, 2011 05:59:14 AM.
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A Kitchener man has lost his appeal to have his parole eligibility reduced in connection with a double murder in February 2004.
This morning’s Record reports the Ontario Court of Appeal has ruled 32-year-old Michael Sirois must must serve 21 years behind bars before he can apply for parole.
He wanted the eligibility reduced to 16 to 18 years.
Sirois was sentenced in 2008 for the killings of 87-year-old Verna Bast, and her 47-year-old boarder, Randy Penner. They were stabbed to death in Bast’s Glasgow Street home.