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| Corrections Canada investigating halfway house after home invasion murder |
| By Canadian Press |
| Published: 08/16/2004 |
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Corrections Canada is investigating a Vernon (Vancouver) halfway house in the wake of a brutal beating death of an elderly man during a home invasion. Escaped convict Eric Fish was charged last Monday with murdering 75-year-old Bill Abramenko, who was viciously beaten in his Vernon home with his restrained wife present. Fish vanished from the John Howard Society halfway house in Vernon June 21, but police didn't issue a public advisory about him until after the Aug. 4 home invasion in which Abramenko was severely beaten. He died days later from his injuries. Many in the community, including Abramenko's family, are asking why the public wasn't notified about Fish's escape earlier. At first, RCMP had blamed the privacy laws for preventing them from issuing the advisory. But Vernon RCMP spokeswoman Heather Macdonald said later that privacy laws did not prevent them from warning people that Fish, 42, who was on parole for the 1984 murder of an Ontario man, had disappeared. Last Wednesday, as around 250 people attended a memorial for Abramenko at a Vernon church, RCMP sent out a release saying they did everything they could to find Fish after he went missing. The halfway house is no stranger to controversy - in the last 10 years two other inmates have been charged with murder while out on parole. |
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