Crooked in Canada

Crooked in Canada has managed to come into possession of the email a grieving and suffering mother sent to what I am assuming is the review board that had the balls to release Stephan Gaetan Lee into the community. The email appears below and was written and sent this past Wednesday.

All I can say now is that the people who live in the neighbourhood where Lee is now residing better sleep with a gun beside their bed because as far as Crooked in Canada is concerned now that Lee has gotten the taste of blood and knows that he can get away with murder, the likelihood of him taking the life of somebody else who looks at him, or says something to him in the wrong way, has risen significantly.

His neighbours can’t possibly be sleeping well at night and why should they?

This a pathetic miscarriage of justice; first the family and friends of Steven Tavares are slapped in the face when Justice Peter Martin finds that Lee cannot be held responsible for his murderous actions because of some kind of paranoia and that Tavares’s killer wasn’t rational at the time of the murder (what cold-blooded killer is really), and now just three years later the family has learned via the media that Lee has been released back into the community. Nobody even had the balls to contact the family to let them know that the person who stabbed their loved one to death was no longer in custody. Talk about adding insult to injury.

The email as I received a copy of it. Steven Tavare’s mother’s email address has been deliberately omitted for obvious reasons, and Crooked in Canada accepts that this email and the source from which it came, is credible.

From: ANN TAVARES
To:
Sent: Wed Nov 26 22:03:12 2008
Subject: Killer on the street

I am the mother of Steven Tavares. I am shocked and outraged to find the
news of the killer Mr Lee’s release from the media. Only 3 years after the
killer was declared insane by verdict, this monster is out in the community.
It is outrageous that someone who committed a crime of this magnitude would
suddenly be fit to resume a normal life in the community. I feel the Review
Board has failed in their responsibility to the protect the public from such
a killer. I am also angry that the Board failed to notify the family of the
victim that the killer had been released into the community.

The verdict had stated that the killer Mr Lee was severely ill and suffering
from severe delusions and might be a very long time before the killer could
be rehabilitated, however 3 years it is hard to believe that this is
happening. Where is the justice in all of this? Is society prepared for this
to happen again to a loved one?

A suffering mother

Ann