Canada Doesn't Have a Justice System

But it does have a legal one:

The Parole Board of Canada has cancelled unescorted temporary absences for a woman who helped kill a pregnant Inuit student from Labrador just over a decade ago in Halifax and dumped her body beside a highway in a hockey bag.

Victoria Lea Henneberry is serving a life sentence for the second-degree murder of Loretta Saunders in February 2014. The parole board had granted her 30 days of unescorted leave in the fall of 2024 to take “personal development” courses at a halfway house.

Henneberry, now 39, and her boyfriend, Blake Leggette, were subletting a room in Saunders’ Halifax apartment when the couple killed the Saint Mary’s University student after she came to collect their rent that they didn’t have.

The parole board revoked Henneberry’s leave because of her behaviour in a decision released Friday.

“You began expressing feeling emotionally overwhelmed. Your expressions began to look like warning signs for more serious concerns as you indicated you did not want to wake up,” the parole board said.

“Concerns also arose with you not following the rules. Despite it being explained to you that you should not access the internet as per the (unescorted temporary absence) rules, you later reluctantly admitted you did so through other residents.”

Henneberry got others to order items for her from Amazon, including a guitar pic and earrings, said the decision, dated Dec. 24. “You did this despite not being able to bring new items back into the prison with you and despite the express purpose of the (unescorted temporary absences) being for rehabilitative purposes.”

 

So many benefits for a convicted murderer. 

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Lawyers are set to begin legal arguments today for four girls scheduled to face trial this year over their alleged role in a deadly group attack on a homeless man in Toronto.

The teens are part of a group police allege swarmed and stabbed Kenneth Lee, a 59-year-old man who was living in the city’s shelter system, in December 2022.

Eight girls between the ages of 13 and 16 were arrested in the hours after Lee’s death.

 

And we will never know who they are.