Day parole revoked for Manitoba killer who fabricated Metis ancestry - BERITAJA

A man who spent decades down bars for an axe execution successful Manitoba has had his time parole revoked because he lied about being Metis.

Jack Wayne Bender, 74, was granted time parole past month. He had been incarcerated since June 1974.
In a determination released this week, the Parole Board of Canada said it cancelled the time parole May 5 aft Bender admitted he had lied about his ancestry.

“You person maintained this deception for respective years. You besides disclosed that you ne'er wished to beryllium released connected time parole. This disclosure has led to an summation successful your level of needs and a alteration successful your motivation,” the committee said successful its decision.

“The truth that you deficiency transparency and are reluctant to prosecute successful the merchandise process limits the assistance and support that could beryllium offered.”

Bender was recovered blameworthy of what was past designated arsenic non-capital execution and sentenced to life successful prison.

In 1973, he and an accomplice stole items from a van and attacked the 2 owners.

One unfortunate was forced to thrust to a deserted adjacent Lockport, northeast of Winnipeg, while Bender held the different unfortunate astatine knifepoint successful the backmost of the vehicle.

Bender and his accomplice later forced the victims to dishonesty connected their stomachs pinch their hands tied down their backs. Bender deed them some many times pinch an axe.

One unfortunate died astatine the scene, while the different made it to a adjacent farmhouse for help.

Bender was arrested 2 days later, intoxicated connected intoxicant and medication. He claimed to person blacked retired erstwhile the attacks happened.

The parole committee said Bender has expressed a “low interest” successful rehabilitation and was astatine consequence of reoffending.

But it approved time parole because he had made advancement successful the past 5 years by getting intelligence wellness curen and reconnecting pinch his heritage.

It said Bender has completed Indigenous programming and worked pinch elders.

The Correctional Service of Canada requested Bender’s time parole beryllium cancelled owed to his “lack of honesty and transparency,” said the board.

“(Correctional Service of Canada) believes that fixed this caller information, further clip is required successful the institution.

“(It) expresses interest that you had not been forthcoming pinch the professionals progressive successful your case.”

The committee said Bender had astatine 1 constituent had a beardown willingness to reintegrate into nine and nary longer resorted to unit erstwhile faced pinch difficulties.

While incarcerated, Bender assaulted a corrections serviceman and successfully escaped from a minimum-security institution, but he was recovered not criminally responsible.

He was allowed escorted impermanent absences passim his imprisonment. The about caller absences successful 2024 were reported to person gone well.