Prisons head said process to notify minister of Bernardo transfer was followed: email
Tim Danson, a lawyer representing the French and Mahaffy families, has said they want the decision reversed, adding it happened around the anniversary of Leslie Mahaffy's kidnapping and death
OTTAWA -
As confusion reigned about who was informed that notorious serial killer Paul Bernardo was being transferred to a medium-security prison, the head of Canada's federal prison system wrote to Public Safety Canada officials insisting the appropriate notification protocols had been followed.
Emails released to The Canadian Press through the Access to Information
Act appear to show Correctional Service of Canada Commissioner Anne
Kelly was not clear on how or why Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino
had not been informed before Bernardo was moved out of maximum
security. ---More...
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