The Gazette (Montreal)
Saturday
LETTER
Shocking decision by parole board
Re: "Man who killed neighbour, child in 1992 granted full parole" (Montreal Gazette, July 11) I'm disgusted that a man convicted of murdering Bercuhi Leylekoglu and her two-yearold daughter in 1992 is to be released on full parole.
Denis Paulet told police he had a deep resentment of immigrants, and he hatched the plan with his motherin-law to kill his Armenian neighbour so he could steal from her apartment while her husband was away.
Now he is on his way to becoming a free man, after the parole board noted his "advanced age" and that he had attained "the fixed objectives" while living at a halfway house.
What kind of a society are we living in when a premeditated murder is committed and the person who is found guilty becomes a free man because he has got older? What kind of hellish life has he inflicted for all these years, and years to come, on the husband of the victim and their other children? The parole board members should rethink their decision.
Murat Mike Hacikyaner
Montreal