Double Murderer Breaches Parole Gets Smack on Hand

16th July 2016

Leith Ray who brutally shot and killed elderly defenceless couple, John and Josie Harrison, in cold blood in their own home has been sentenced to two months in prison after he was caught using methamphetamine breaching his life parole conditions. However, the sentence for Leith Ray will effectively count as time served since his recall to prison in March.

Scott Guthrie from Sensible Sentencing Trust said that is ludicrous. “Every offender who breaches their parole conditions is liable to imprisonment of 1 year but true to form Judge Merelina Burnett stayed in line with her learned colleagues’ and used only a portion of the sentence available to her.”

Leith Ray was on a burglary spree, stealing a .22 rifle. While the Harrisons’ slept, Marsh and Ray broke into their home, but Mr Harrison woke and confronted Ray and his accomplice. In a blatant cowardly attack Mr Harrison was shot in the back and then they turned to Mrs Harrison shooting her in her bed. In a final act of cowardly gutlessness, the pair then took turns at using the bodies as target practise.

Guthrie said, “Here we have one of New Zealand’s most notorious murderers who is obviously still a clear danger to the public flaunting the law and basically getting away with it.”

“When the Parole Board decided to release Ray it stated that he undergone drug treatment and seen a psychologist. The Parole Board also said Ray no longer posed an undue risk to the community. How wrong could have they been. This whole situation reeks of offender friendliness in every sense of the word.”

“What the hell are prisoners who have been in prison for a very long time doing going through a drug treatment programme? How can they be addicted to drugs when our prisons are supposed to be drug free? “

“What the public needs to know is that any prisoner who is released and is ordered not to consume drugs or alcohol can just ignore that order because there is no law enabling probation or police, or anyone for that matter, to actually drug test the offender and the government is not doing anything quickly to fix it”. ENDS

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/82068821/Elderly-couples-killer-gets-two-months-jail-for-parole-breach

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