LILLEY: Three justice system failures with deadly consequences

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Myles Sanderson, Sean Petrie and Nikolas Ibey, three males whose names I want I had by no means heard — three males who introduced demise and carnage.

They’re additionally three males with previous violent convictions, which is now elevating questions on how our justice system works, or in these circumstances, didn’t.

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Sanderson, alongside together with his brother, stabbed and killed 10 individuals and injured many extra on the James Smith Cree First Nation in Saskatchewan. He had not too long ago been granted statutory launch after conviction on numerous assault and theft fees.

His rap sheet for violent assaults — together with assaulting his spouse, assaulting a police officer and stabbing his father-in-law, who later he killed in his Sept. 3 bloodbath — goes again greater than a decade.

Sanderson had even violated the circumstances of his launch, was taken again into custody, after which launched once more.

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It’s honest to query whether or not this bloodbath would have taken place if he had been saved in jail. Given his lengthy report, I’ve bother understanding why his sentences weren’t longer and he was free to terrorize his neighborhood.

Sean Petrie wasn’t in jail or on parole when he shot and killed Toronto Police Const. Andrew Hong and auto physique store proprietor Shakeel Ashraf on Monday, however he too has had a protracted and lasting relationship with the justice system.

Over the past 20 years, Petrie was convicted of weapons and drug fees, theft and different petty crimes. He confronted youngster pornography fees in 2015 and a theft cost in 2016, however in each situations the circumstances had been dropped.

He didn’t seem to have any main brushes with the regulation after that till he sought out Const. Hong after ready for hours in a Mississauga Tim Hortons.

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Nikolas Ibey is one other matter.

The 33-year-old Ottawa man is now dealing with a homicide cost within the demise of 22-year-old Savanna Pikuyak.

Ibey has a violent previous with girls and earlier this yr was given a 45-day sentence for assaulting his former girlfriend in addition to breaking and getting into, uttering threats and failing to conform together with his launch order. It’s unbelievable that that is what the sentence is for these fees, however that is our system.

Because the Ottawa Sun’s Blair Crawford reported earlier this week, the conviction wasn’t the primary time Ibey had been violent with girls he was near.

Lori Roche advised Crawford that in Might 2021, Ibey had thrown a rock via her window. She had a restraining order put in place, which he routinely ignored, as did the police she stated when she known as to report him.

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“I stated, ‘That is how girls find yourself useless.’ I advised the probation officer that,” Roche stated.

Now a lady is useless following a sample of violence and a justice system that failed Pikuyak, a younger girl who had moved to Ottawa from Nunavut to begin college simply days earlier than her demise.

Supporters of the present system of bail, probation, parole, statutory launch and a give attention to rehabilitation will inform you that statistically, the system works. That the general public let loose from jail don’t offend once more.

These three tales inform a unique story and in two of them – each Sanderson and Ibey having not too long ago been in jail – I might name these spectacular failures.

blilley@postmedia.com