Sunday, October 08, 2006

Let's hope he passes the "test"

Gresham Marsh killed an elderly couple in 1994. He is serving a life sentence. Marsh's three sisters oppose his release. Apparently he is a time-bomb who will reoffend. Rowene Marsh-Potaka says, "I have dedicated my life to keep my brother inside in order to save another victim's life. Mark my words, if he is released he will kill again."

On September 19 the parole board said it supported supervised home leave to test if his (Marsh's) improved behaviour was genuine or a "manipulation" that could be trusted.

Last week three guards managed to lose a Arohata patient while she was at the local dentist.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Prisoners in prison are very closely supervised and consequently have few opportunities to offend. Yet their behaviour in prison, i.e. not offending, is taken as proof that they are unlikely to offend once released.