A man who murdered nine people by bombing a Yellowknife mine 22 years ago continues to make “positive contributions to society” since being released from prison, a federal parole board has ruled in extending Roger Warren’s day parole.
The Parole Board of Canada granted the 71-year-old an additional six months parole on Nov. 21, stating board members found that by all accounts he is doing well and respecting conditions the board imposed.
“While mindful that the victims of your crime remain deeply affected by your actions,” reads recently obtained documents, “with no evidence that your risk is increasing and given the positive work you have done throughout your incarceration and community supervision, the Board finds that your risk to reoffend is not undue…”
Warren was sentenced to life in prison for second degree murder in January 1995 in the killing of nine replacement workers during an acrimonious strike at the Giant Mine.
He was found guilty of rigging a trip wire that detonated a massive dynamite explosion deep underground when it was snagged by a passing ore car holding the victims.
He confessed to the crime 13 months later, retracted his admission at trial, but was convicted and then many years passed before he took full responsibility while in prison in 2003.
At sentencing, the judge called the bombing “nothing less than an act of terrorism,” noting many lives were devastated.
Warren said his original motive was to disrupt mining operations and strengthen the union’s bargaining position. But he later told an undercover police officer that casualties were justified in a strike that was similar to a war, state the documents.
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