by Roy Green - from the National Post
One year ago Karen Fraser was national news. Not because she wanted to be, but because Craig Munroe, who callously murdered her husband, Toronto police Constable Michael Sweet, had been approved for unescorted absences from minimum security incarceration.
On March 14, 1980, Munroe, on mandatory supervision for a previous offence, shot the young police officer in the chest and with his brother Jamie callously watched Sweet bleed to death while they drank, did drugs and negotiated their terms of surrender.
Karen Fraser opposed her husband’s killer strolling unchallenged and unsupervised onto Canada’s streets. That was of no concern to the system or its apologists.
This nation’s police community challenged the release of Munroe. No concern.
Nicole, one year old when Munroe murdered her father, said “he murdered and tortured him. That’s not a memory a daughter should have of her dad.” No concern.
That Munroe claimed some kind of redemptive psycho-development, though, was of great importance and was of keen interest to two members of the National Parole Board. They tossed Munroe the keys to the gate. Read more
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