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news Grant De Patie’s killer breaks parole conditions for second time
Terms of release violated in 2005, did not expect Pratt to last long outside prison. The young man who dragged a “He is not ready for the outside Maple Ridge gas station attendant world,” said De Patie, who was to his death six years ago has vio- informed that Pratt missed his lated his parole again, this time 8 p.m. curfew Saturday. “He is just two days after being making a mockery of the released from prison. parole system. He is not Darnell Darcy Pratt was showing any remorse. released from a federal He is not showing any penitentiary on Thursrespect for the loss of day, but failed to return Grant.” to the Victoria halfway A parole board decision house he was staying at released in September Saturday night. revealed that Pratt, now It’s the second time in 22, would have a difa year Pratt has violated Grant De Patie ficult time staying away parole conditions. from a life of crime. Pratt was first granted He racked up institustatutory release in June 2010 tional charges while in prison and violated curfew just two days for a slew of incidents, including after he was paroled to a Kam- using drugs, drinking alcohol, loops halfway house. verbally abusing corrections staff, Doug De Patie, whose 24-year- and assaulting another inmate. old son Grant was killed by Pratt “Your institutional behaviour Monisha Martins Black Press
has been very poor,” the board said in a decision that imposed several special conditions on Pratt’s statutory release. Pratt has been assessed as a “moderate” risk to re-offend. He was just 16 in March 2005, when he struck Grant De Patie in a stolen car while fleeing an Esso station in Maple Ridge without paying for gas. Pratt dragged the 24-year-old under the car for 7.5 kilometres. While on parole, Pratt is bound by several special conditions that include having to live in a halfway house or community correctional centre; abstaining from intoxicants; not associating with criminals and having no contact with the De Patie family. He is also supposed to have no overnight leave privileges. His sentence officially ends July 12, 2012.
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