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Yellowknife native Roger Warren, who has been serving a life sentence for mass murder after he blew up the now closed Giant Mine 21 years ago, was granted day parole Tuesday in Mission, B.C.
“All I can say is, I’m sorry,” Warren said, choking up, during the hearing, Canadian Press reports. “I always prayed people wouldn’t waste their life hating me,” he added.
The former miner, now 70, will be allow to walk free during daytime, but must return to his community-based residential facility at the end of each day and meet regularly with a Parole Officer.
He will live in a halfway house during his release, which will come up for renewal in six months. He will also have to avoid any contact with the victims’ families, won’t be allow to drink any alcohol and must attend counselling for the rest of his life.
Warren is serving a life sentence for nine counts of second-degree murder as a result of bombing the gold mine in 1992. At the time, it was one of the worst mass murders in Canadian history.
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3 Comments
digger69
This is a perfect example of the stupidity of the Canadian legal system. He blew up 9 people, I was at Giant at the time and knew a couple of the guys.
He should never have been able to see the light of day.
Also it is a good example of a flawed relationship between unions and management, The union was very militant and were causing vandalism in the town. The management was Royal Oak their CEO, and the mining industry knows her track record.
The union and the company were both to blame.
patentbs
I am the same age and the same interest as the people involved. No one can say the union and management were to blame. Warren is to blame. The rest is all circumstance. This man should have been executed!
I have 2 sons still mining in the area and if this crap happened to one of them I would only think revenge. Then I would not have to spend my life hating this A@#hole.
sailormac
This guy committed pre-meditated mass murder! So how much time did he actually do for it?