Prison staff and the family of his victim, 21-year-old Crystal Paskemin, opposed Kenneth David Mackay's release on day parole. It was granted. Sask
At his first-degree murder trial more than 20 years ago, Kenneth David Mackay told a jury that the death of Crystal Paskemin, a trusting young Indigenous woman who’d accepted his offer of a ride home from a country bar in Saskatoon, was just a terrible accident.We deliver the local news you need in these turbulent times on weekdays at 3 p.m.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
Mackay said he had no memory of stripping the clothes off her body. He said he had no memory of using a flammable liquid to try to burn the body, as the evidence showed. After a trial that lasted more than six weeks, the jury sent Mackay to prison for first-degree murder in June 2002 with a life sentence, no chance of parole for 25 years. He later appealed, and lost.
“We bear the burden of re-traumatization every time the Parole Board of Canada sends letters of his activities, for the past 23 years. … We bear the burden of perpetual fear that another daughter or granddaughter will meet the same fate as our dear Crystal.”Article content Mackay’s institutional parole officer “reiterated her concerns regarding inability to accept ‘no’ for an answer and the concern that inability to accept ‘no’ is related to the index offence,” the decision notes.Article content
One of Paskemin’s four younger sisters established a community outreach program in her honour in 2017.“The essence of Crystal was, and always will be, one of kindness, compassion and love,” her family said in a prepared statement.
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