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April 22, 1988 News 985-2131 Classified 986-222

ILLER’S
RELEASE
CAUSES
OUTRAGE

LOCAL CRIME authorities are outraged by the news that
the killer of a young woman, whose body wus found. on
Mount Seymour in 1973, almost killed apain vartier ‘this

month in Ontario.

The man whose job it was.te
head up a special murder squad
investigating a series of sex
murders in B.C. during the carby
"70s sitid he was ‘‘anpered beyond
outrage’? to hear that self-confess-
ed murderer Paul Cecil Gillis, 39,
had almost killed again while out
on an unescorted day pass.

was just a terrible tevul ive

CITIZENS United for Safety ‘und
Sustive North Shore branch chair-
man Fred Bodnaruk.

fecling when I heard that some-
body nearly lost their life again,’
said former RCMP Staff Set. Fred
- Bodnaruk.

Bodnaruk is currently the
chairman of the North Shore

‘branch of Citizens United for '

Safety arid Justice. The group is:
active on behalf of. crime’ victims
and lobbies for law reform.

Said a North Vancouver RCMP

__ Spokesperson: “To put it bluntly, ,

-we were shocked that this man
could be out on a day pass after
“killing three people.”’

Gillis and another hospital pa-

By MICHAEL BECKER

News Neporter

tient were outon unescorted passes
— fram medium security supers
sion at St. Thamas Psychiatric
Hospital (Ontario’s equivalent. to
Riverview) -—— when they abducted
a d4-year-old Ontario gitl, seauatly

assaulied her and threw her from a!

bridge, leaving her for dead.

Gillis had been allowed out on
day passes for about a year,

Gillis had been ‘senienced to an

Vindefinite term under maximum

security in’ the Penetanguisheng
mental health centre after ‘being
fotind not guilty by reason of in-
sanity for the mid-"70s rape: and
killing, of an Ontarie woman,
After his arrest in Ontario tn 1974,

Gillis was charged with the

tnurders of the. young woman

» found on Mount Seymour (and

another Lower Mainland tcen.

‘The body of 17-year-old Barbara
Stau, who had been sexually
molested and strangled July 30,
1973, was found by tower techni-
cians near a Mount Seymour radio
transmitter tower. Statt, a foster
child living with a family in Bur-
naby, had last been seen alive July
29,

Bodnaruk is demanding an in-
quiry into the day:pass procedure.

“People like that shouldn't have
passes. They should be confined
and not be let oul anywhere. Give
him a category of discipline and
Stick to it,’’ he said. ‘I aceuse the
authorities of criminal negligence
of the, worst kind. Either wittingly

or unwittingly they are accessories :

toan attempted: murder.”

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