ON THE OTHER HAND

WE DO not have a justice
- system, What we have is a
legal system, —
The North Shore’s Noreen
- Provost of Canadians
United for Safety and
“Justice.

« Those words ;
become more appro-
priate by the day.
Consider the case of.

a monster’ named |.”

_ Gregg Williams,,who © ;

--.- just before. the holi-.- .

: vday was sentenced to
“12-years for

manslaughter.

“This Nootka

“Indian was already
serving & 25-year -
sentence fora .-
vicious murder and was in Kent
ja when he killed a second
woman, his new wife, during. a
conjugal visit.
. His first crime hardly bears.
description.’ it'was committed in|
1988 on a parking lot in Esquitnalt
‘and the victim was a young moth-
er of three.
before. She just happened’ to be
theres 22,

“ She’ ‘was. raped and slaughtered
(no other word fits the act) and the
trial judge Called it “a murder of
the most unbelievable brutality.”

“Williams skewered the poor

girl with a two-metre steel rod and’

“buried a knife in her. Then he .
‘went into a store to wash his.
hands’ and ‘get'a hotdog: «:’
“icctWe move.on to-1991- when a.
foctish woman in England started.
a‘“pen pal’ ‘correspondence with
‘him, Later, ‘she arrived in Canada
isitor’ $ permit and married.

“< picture of the teeming iti His *:_f
“new. bride, “Patricia,” provided the

: neaded number of silly statements.

“© “I’ve come across the world for:

“what i believe ins I believe I've
» got a future with him.”
What about Williams being a
: raurderer? a ;

burbled, “Pe met. ot the man the
prison system has put back on his’

e had never seen her”

Loving hubby played his part
“TL grieve every day.” he suid
regarding the murder of the young
tother, But the letters he had been
gelling from Patricia were “a life.
line that kept hit believing he
could put his past behind hin” it
was reported,

“No min, 20 gurls, no prison
will keep us apart”

True love, But the prison guard
in the background of the (our-col-
umn wedding picture looked a bit
doubtful,

So did Inge Clausen, She's the
hesid of Citizens United, which
tries 10 inject some sense into our
handling of violent criminals, (Her
own daughter was murdered by a
man out of jail on carly release.)

She thought it was crazy, too,
that a murderer could apply to
sponser a womun's entry into
Canada as an immigrant. But the
immigration department was cons
sidering his application even as
Patricia met her death. :

T asked the department about it
afier Williams was charged and

66 That would only make things
‘emotional’ and it has been ruled that
‘emotion must not enter into parole

hearings. 99

was told: “Technically, Williams
meets all the requirements.”
He was legally married to a

non-resident and the law did not

exclude him from the rights given
to any other-applicant.
Mrs. Clausen felt all along that

‘something terrible would happen, |”
: So she asked Ottawa: “Is Patricia “’

not just a tool used by Williams.

7

wid is she not perhaps alse a as.
guided individual whe one day
might be in mortal danger ithe
gets angry? lhe Esquimalt
Killing) wascatter all ony of the
most gruesome murders ever
seen”

Williams killed Ivis wite with
a overdose of herolo in the quar
ters reserved for conjugal visits,

Conjugal rights, sponsor righty.

marringe rights, heroin. t's great
being in jail these days. You cas
have hair down your back, too,
and soon the guards may have to
cull you Sirs just as the dailies
already call everyone “Mr”
(Clifford Olsen is always “Mr.")

In this second killing, Williams
was initially charged with first
degree murder. But that was
reduced to manslaughter, Don't
ask me why.

His 12-year sentence doesn't
mean a thing, He just goes back lo
jail without having to Serve any
extra time,

inthe U.S., multiple murder
can bring consecutive sentences, If ;

they are. not executed, ,”
that is, But notin 7
Canada. i
Theoretically, efor
derers are sentenced
to “life,” whichis sup-
posed to mean 25
years. But they can
apply for parole after
15 — something the
feds sneaked j in.
When Williams
applies, the panel that
hears his case will not
be told he killed twice’
or that he pushed a
two-metre rod through a woman's -
body. ”
_. That would only make things ¢
“emotional” and it has been ruled
that emotion must not enter into ;
parole heariags.,

As Mrs. Provost said, we have
a legal system, but not a: justice
system.

Thanks to the politicians.

“The B. Cc, Lions will be showing « off their trophy
so come down. and ask them how. it feels to be

the best in the CFL! '

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