Family of mass stabbing victim not happy with Parole Board of Canada’s reason for releasing perpetrator
Myles Sanderson’s risk to the public was manageable.
That’s what a member of the Parole Board of Canada said during a hearing which allowed the prison release of an inmate who went on to commit one of Canada’s worst mass killings on the James Smith Cree Nation and Village of Weldon that left 11 people dead and 17 others injured out of custody.
That written decision was discussed on Monday during Day 11 of the coroner’s inquest looking into exactly what happened on Sept. 4, 2022. The jury is not tasked with determining fault but rather looking at the circumstances and making recommendations to prevent similar incidents from happening.
Monica Irfan with the Parole Board of Canada was brought in to testify about Sanderson’s hearings and the decisions behind them. She explained she never interacted with the inmate doing his time in custody or during the hearings.