Sarah Smellie
Gregory Parsons poses for a photograph outside the Supreme Court of Newfoundland in St. John s on Thursday, April 22, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Daly April 30, 2021 - 1:00 AM
ST. JOHN S, N.L. - Last Friday, a Parole Board of Canada decision gave Greg Parsons a momentary reprieve from weeks of night terrors and unearthed trauma.
The parole hearing for the man who killed Parsons mother, Catherine Carroll, had just ended, and Parsons was pacing around his house, elated and electrified. He d read out a gut-wrenching, 30-page victim impact statement that he d worked on for weeks, and it seemed to have been successful: Brian Doyle, the man convicted of stabbing his mother 53 times on Jan. 2, 1991, had his day parole revoked.