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   From: gregcarrsober@gmail.com   
      
   Steven Leclair, killer of 4, gets monthly overnight passes   
   'Spasm of deliberate violence' in 1980 'among the most heinous crimes'   
   in B.C. history   
   The Canadian Press Posted: Jan 29, 2014 6:45 AM PT Last Updated: Jan 29,   
   2014 6:45 AM PT   
      
      
   Vancouver cop-killer wants day parole   
   A man who killed four people, including an RCMP officer, in a "spasm of   
   deliberate violence" in the Vancouver area more than three decades ago   
   will be allowed to leave prison for up to 72 hours each month, the   
   National Parole Board has ruled.   
      
   Steven Lee Leclair was 34 when he shot and killed three people in   
   Vancouver's Palace Hotel beer parlour in September 1980. He then   
   hijacked a car and headed to an RCMP detachment in nearby Richmond,   
   where he shot and killed 26-year-old Const. Tom Agar and wounded another   
   officer.   
      
   Leclair, who is now 67, was convicted of four counts of first-degree   
   murder and is serving a life sentence.   
      
   Last year, the National Parole Board granted Leclair two eight-hour day   
   passes to visit his wife.   
      
   He recently asked the board to expand those passes to allow him to stay   
   with his wife overnight at an undisclosed location somewhere in the   
   Lower Mainland.   
      
   The board released a decision Tuesday saying Leclair will be permitted   
   two overnight passes each month — one for 48 hours and another for 24   
   hours. He will be allowed to visit his wife's house, as well as places   
   such as restaurants, movie theatres and his wife's church.   
      
   While the board's decision says Leclair presents a "high risk to   
   re-offend violently," it also notes there have been no issues with his   
   unescorted day passes since they were granted almost a year ago. Before   
   that, he was allowed escorted trips from prison, and those, too,   
   happened without incident, the board says.   
      
   The decision says Leclair has a stable and positive relationship with   
   his wife, has the support of his church, and has not seriously acted out   
   violently while in prison.   
      
   "The board is to address the matter of risk, and whether your risk can   
   safely be managed in the community," which was dated Jan. 14.   
      
   "These special conditions are reasonable and necessary to protect   
   society and to assist with your reintegration as a law-abiding citizen."   
      
   Among 'most heinous' B.C. crimes   
      
   Leclair was at a bar in Vancouver on Sept. 19, 1980, when he was thrown   
   out for "belligerent behaviour," the parole board's decision says. As he   
   was removed, he told two staff members he would be back to kill them.   
      
   A short time later, Leclair returned to the bar. He shot and killed a   
   waiter, as well as a woman seated nearby, and then leaned over a counter   
   and shot the bar's manager in the head. He also fired at someone fleeing   
   the scene, but missed.   
      
   After that, Leclair commandeered a passing vehicle, ordering the driver   
   to take him to an RCMP detachment in Richmond, where he killed one   
   officer and wounded another, the board says.   
      
   The violence ended when a third officer ordered Leclair to surrender,   
   prompting the killer to throw down his gun.   
      
   The parole board says it was "among the most heinous crimes" in B.C.   
   history.   
      
   "Such a bloody spasm of deliberate violence must, and does, cast a long   
   shadow over the rest of your term of life imprisonment," says the   
   board's decision.   
      
   "Someone who is capable of that level of controlled rage will always   
   have a question mark about the possibility of its re-occurrence."   
      
   Leclair applied for early parole in 1998 under the so-called faint hope   
   clause, which allowed offenders serving life sentences to apply for   
   parole after just 15 years, rather than the mandatory 25.   
      
   A B.C. Supreme Court jury rejected his request.   
      
   With files from CBC News   
   © The Canadian Press, 2014   
      
   In another news article it stated that LeClair had a wife and the   
   support of his church.   
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