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Police killer allowed out of prison
Topic Started: Mar 17 2010, 09:59 AM (46 Views)
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Police killer allowed out of prison

March 17, 2010

Peter Edwards, Toronto Star

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Julian Fantino, a homicide detective at the time, leads Craig Munro
away from court in 1981.
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Despite the protests of OPP Commissioner Julian Fantino, police killer Craig Munro has finally won unescorted passes from his British Columbia minimum-security prison.

Munro, 59, was convicted of first-degree murder for murdering Toronto police Const. Michael Sweet during a botched robbery in the early hours of March 14, 1980, at George's Bourbon Street restaurant on Queen St. W.

On Tuesday in Agassiz, B.C., at a closed hearing, Munro was granted up to four unescorted passes a year for up to 15 days each.

It was the first parole Munro has been granted since he shot Sweet and let him slowly bleed to death, while he and his brother, Jamie Munro, then 21, held police at bay with a semi-automatic rifle and a sawed-off shotgun.

Fantino has vigorously fought against Munro being released from custody.

Sweet was on routine patrol that morning when he was called to the robbery in progress by a restaurant employee.

Almost immediately after arriving at the restaurant, he was shot in the shoulder and chest.

For the next 90 minutes, Munro ignored the pleas of Sweet about his three daughters and taunted the bleeding officer, telling him he would never see his wife or children again.

The standoff with police ended when Sgt. Eddie Adamson, who headed the Emergency Task Force, ignored an order by superior officers to hold back and fired tear gas inside. By then, it was too late. Sweet died in hospital a few hours later. Fantino was the homicide officer in charge of investigating the case, and he admitted in his memoir, Duty: The Life of a Cop, that it haunted him.

In his book, Fantino wrote, "We lost him. With those words my world just stopped."

Adamson never recovered from that night, and was wracked with guilt for not rushing in sooner, even though he had been ordered to hold back.

He committed suicide in 2005.

Munro was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison, while his brother was released on parole in 1992 after being convicted of second-degree murder.

Munro has argued that he is a changed man, having converted to traditional aboriginal spirituality. He has been housed in a minimum-security prison near Chilliwack.
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This is a case where the miscreant should have been executed (along with his brother).... plain and simple. He is evil and is not worth the money that it has taken to look after him. But since capital punishment is not allowed in Canada he got 'life'. He should never be allowed out!

I knew Ed Adamson (who was the ETF supervisor) and he was an excellent dedicated officer. It was such a sad situation to have him end his own life. The guy that should have been hung out to dry, was the Duty Inspector that night who ordered Adamson to hold back.

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Munro has argued that he is a changed man, having converted to traditional aboriginal spirituality. He has been housed in a minimum-security prison near Chilliwack.


''BINGO'' native get out of jail free card.....

Write a letter to Stephen Harper and ask him why his appointees to the National Parole Board decided to let this killer out of jail. After all, they are the party that is tough on crime, not like those cream puff Liberals.

Any bets on how long it will take for this ''changed man, having converted to traditional aboriginal spirituality.'' to get himself thrown in jail again....
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Mar 17 2010, 11:29 AM
Any bets on how long it will take for this ''changed man, having converted to traditional aboriginal spirituality.'' to get himself thrown in jail again....
No bets. :drkev:
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