CBC News Monday, May 10, 2010 | 6:27 AM PT
A Vernon, B.C., man once described as a "walking time bomb" has been denied statutory release. This is the second time Trent Sinclair has been denied release, said Debra Kihara of the National Parole Board. "Offenders who are serving a federal sentence are ordinarily released automatically at the two-thirds point in their sentence if they've not been granted a parole," she said. "In Mr. Sinclair's case that release was stopped from happening because the board believed he would be likely to commit an offence that would cause serious harm [before the end of his sentence]." Sinclair's long criminal record includes two homicides. In 1993, he stabbed and strangled Bradley Somers of White Rock. In exchange for a guilty plea, the charge was reduced to manslaughter. Just 18 months after he was released, Sinclair killed again, stabbing Vernon resident Gary Grice and tossing his body in a dumpster. For that crime, he was sentenced to seven years in a medium-security prison. But according to parole board documents, Sinclair has been violent with other inmates and refuses to take part in treatment programs, and that makes him a risk to others, the board ruled.The parole board will have to re-evaluate Sinclair's case next year. His prison sentence ends in December 2011.
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