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Families of victims who were murdered by notorious serial killer and rapist Paul Bernardo have been barred from attending his upcoming parole hearing in person, according to the families’ lawyer. Bernardo, who is serving a life sentence and was transferred from maximum- to medium-security prison last year, is scheduled to …
Read More »Paul Bernardo prison transfer needed to be kept ‘low profile,’ officials said
Senior officials within Correctional Service Canada (CSC) and Public Safety Canada said the then-looming transfer of serial killer Paul Bernardo to a medium-security prison needed to be kept “low profile” and under a “close hold” just days before it happened, internal emails show. The newly-released emails also show the CSC …
Read More »How did Paul Bernardo get a prison transfer? CSC set to share review – National
Correctional Service Canada (CSC) will reveal Thursday the outcome of its review regarding the controversial prison transfer of notorious murderer and rapist Paul Bernardo. CSC Commissioner Anne Kelly will present the results of the review at a news conference scheduled for 1:45 p.m. Eastern in Ottawa. She will be joined …
Read More »Bernardo transfer spurred CSC questions on whether Mendicino knew: emails
Days after Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino shared his outrage on social media over the transfer of notorious serial killer Paul Bernardo to a medium-security prison, the head of Canada’s federal prison system asked the department whether the politician had been told of the move. Anne Kelly, the commissioner of …
Read More »Pressure continues to mount on Mendicino over Bernardo transfer briefings – National
Pressure continued to mount on Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino Thursday over what he knew about Paul Bernardo’s prison transfer last month. Mendicino faced resignation calls from Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre Wednesday after the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) revealed it alerted the minister’s office months before the notorious rapist …
Read More »Poilievre calls on feds to reverse Paul Bernardo prison transfer
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on the federal government to use whatever tools it can to reverse a decision by the Correctional Service of Canada to transfer killer Paul Bernardo to a medium-security prison. Bernardo‘s move to a facility in Quebec was made public last week after the correctional …
Read More »Notorious killer Paul Bernardo moved to a medium-security prison
Convicted teen killer and serial rapist Paul Bernardo was quietly moved to a medium-security prison in Quebec on Monday, the lawyer for his victims’ families says. Bernardo has been serving a life sentence for kidnapping, torturing and killing Kristen French, 15, and Leslie Mahaffy, 14, in the early 1990s near …
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