Mr. Speaker, in 1982 Theodore Speicher and two accomplices kidnapped Sharon Bollivar outside her Vancouver house where she lived with her husband and three children. They wanted Sharon's husband to provide them with all the money from the grocery store where he was the manager.
However, the kidnappers panicked and decided not to go through with the ransom plot. Instead Sharon Bollivar was driven to Burnaby Mountain where Speicher killed her with a single shot to the head. He was subsequently arrested after a shoot-out with police. Speicher received a life sentence with no parole for 25 years.
Today Speicher is suffering from terminal leukaemia and is asking for the mercy of the crown so he can die a free man, surrounded by his family. He wants society to show him a compassion that he refused to give Sharon Bollivar.
When Speicher was sentenced the judge stated that: "If there was ever a case in which parole should never be granted this is it". I fully concur with the judge's comments and I hope the minister sees to it that Theodore Speicher dies behind bars where he belongs.