Boyd, whose daughter Laurie was murdered in 1981, passed away on Jan. 3, 2023 at the age of 75, leaving behind a legacy in Canadian justice.
“What you did to these two women was so cowardly, vicious and revolting that it is almost impossible to imagine or comprehend,” Brennan told the court. He added that he made his comments as a warning to “those persons who will, some 25 years down the road, be charged with determining whether either of you two convicts are fit for parole.”
Darlene started her fight against that law immediately upon Peters’ application for early release, travelling to Ottawa to lobby then-federal justice minister Allan Rock, whom she described to me as a man lacking compassion. “It was like talking to a brick wall,” she said. Once the federal Conservatives had a majority government, Bill S-6 was passed, which struck the faint hope clause from the law books. After Dec. 2, 2011, convicted first-degree murderers are no longer eligible to apply for parole before the eligibility date decided upon when they were sentenced.Article contentDoug Boyd, Darlene’s husband of 58 years, called his 5-foot-1 wife, who was “about one hundred pounds soaking wet,” a true fighter.
“She was so weak she could barely talk but like she did every month, she found the strength to call the prison in New Brunswick,” where Peters was incarcerated, to make sure staff knew who they were dealing with and what he did to Laurie and Debbie.Article contentHanger says many people joined Darlene’s fight at the beginning, but she was the last one standing.
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