The wife of one of the New Brunswick RCMP officers murdered in 2014 says she is angry and discouraged after an Appeal Court reduced convicted killer Justin Bourque's parole eligibility.
Nadine Larche's husband, Const. Douglas Larche, was killed in the line of duty in Moncton, N.B., on June 4, 2014, along with two of his colleagues.
With the reduction in his sentence, Bourque — who was 24 at the time of the murders — should be able to apply for parole when he is 49 instead of 99. While she knew the decision was coming, she said it didn't help with the hurt, pain and trauma that resurfaced. In a Feb. 13 victim impact statement by Angela Gevaudan, Gevaudan's widow, said she feels "hurt and abandoned as a victim in our criminal justice system.""Even if she hasn't been able to put it into words, I know in my mom's heart that she fears for her own safety," she said in the statement.
It leaves families, friends and colleagues, and indeed, the community as a whole, in long-lasting profound grief, the court added."Fuelled by hatred for authority, he took the lives of three innocent victims and injured two more. He not only left families devastated, but also left the local community and the law enforcement communities in a state of pain and anguish."Bourque ripped apart not just her home and heart, she said, but affected an entire community.
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