More waste of Tax $$$$

[Kip Powick]

We will never know how many people Joan Elizabeth Heimbecker would have helped had she been able to complete her medical studies?

There’s just no possible way for the brutally slain 25-year-old farm girl from Clifford, Ont. to be offered a second chance.

There’s no special hearing for that.

But there seems to be one available for her killer — starting Tuesday.

And first-degree-murderer Rory Foreman, now 40, is now hoping the Canadian justice system will give him a second chance his victim was not afforded.

Foreman was sentenced in 1996 to life in prison without possibility of applying for parole for 25 years. But under Canada’s “faint hope clause” he is entitled to a National Parole Board review of that parole eligibility after serving at least 15 years.

In from Frontenac Institution in Kingston to seek some form of conditional release, Foreman was in a Hamilton courtroom Monday while a special jury was selected to listen to three weeks worth of testimony, beginning with his parole officer on Tuesday.

It’s bizarre that this is even happening. It just does not seem like all that long ago that this nightmare occurred.

But on March 30, it will have been 17-years since Foreman walked into the residence at Hamilton’s McMaster University with a street-purchased shotgun and in front of horrified dorm mates unloaded five blasts into Heimbecker’s body.

He then strolled out with a smirk on his face, jumped into his rented car

Story here( TorSun)

http://www.torontosun.com/news/columnists/joe_warmington/2011/01/17/16922806.html#/news/columnists/joe_warmington/2011/01/17/pf-16922806.html

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I was attending McMaster During that time - and it seemed so senseless.

Hard to believe two things - its been 17yrs and secondly that we still don't have the death penalty.

A life for a life I say.

SB