Mother of Edmonton homicide victim feels blindsided as accused killer granted bail

Wallis Snowdon · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 14, 2025 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 11 minutes ago

The parent of an Edmonton pistillate killed past September says she was blindsided to larn the antheral accused successful her daughter's homicide has been granted bail.

Collin Boucher-Gionet, 34, charged with second-degree execution and indignity to quality remains successful the decease of his woman Aylissa Rovere, has been granted merchandise connected location arrest. 

Boucher-Gionet has a transgression past with the courts and was connected probation astatine the clip of the alleged killing.

Rovere's mother, Jodi Dunn, said she can't fathom wherefore Boucher-Gionet has been granted further freedoms.

"He's up for execution and to merchandise idiosyncratic similar him, who has been successful occupation before, it's conscionable different slap connected the wrist," Dunn said. "It doesn't marque sense."

A merchandise bid filed with the Court of King's Bench connected March 7 details the conditions of his release.

With a currency deposit bail of $2,500, Boucher-Gionet volition stay connected 24-hour location apprehension nether the supervision of a surety. The conditions barroom him from consuming illicit drugs oregon alcohol, from carrying weapons, and from contacting immoderate of 24 people, including Dunn.

A bail proceeding that had been scheduled for the Court of King's Bench connected March 7 was cancelled aft the Crown consented to the merchandise conditions.

Dunn said she feels connected edge. She had hoped helium would stay successful the custody of the Edmonton Remand Centre.

"This is going to impact a batch of people's lives," she said. "And arsenic acold arsenic I'm concerned, determination should beryllium an outcry. What is our justness strategy doing?" 

In a connection to CBC, Boucher-Gionet's lawyer said her lawsuit is constitutionally entitled to beryllium presumed guiltless and get tenable bail, careless of the allegations against him. 

"As nary 1 tin foretell the future, bail is astir mitigating risk," Stacey Purser wrote.

"The 2 precise experienced Crown counsel connected the record felt that the conditions we proposed, including location apprehension with surety supervision, adequately mitigated immoderate hazard to the public."

The Alberta Crown Prosecution Service has declined to remark specifically connected Boucher-Gionet's release.

Rovere, a 32-year-old parent of two, was past seen connected Sept. 6. Her assemblage was recovered the pursuing week erstwhile constabulary searched a location successful Parkland County, astir 40 kilometres westbound of downtown Edmonton.

Dunn has said her girl was trying to permission the relationship.

Boucher-Gionet has been successful custody since his apprehension connected Sept. 17 erstwhile helium was apprehended successful a stolen conveyance aft Edmonton constabulary issued a nationalist warrant naming him arsenic the sole fishy successful the killing. 

Police accidental the 2 were successful an intimate relationship. Investigators person not released Rovere's origin of death.

'The incorrect message'

Boucher-Gionet's merchandise means helium tin stay retired of jailhouse portion the lawsuit moves done the justness strategy — a process expected to instrumentality months.

He has yet to participate pleas to the charges helium faces. A preliminary enquiry — a proceeding to find if the grounds against him is capable to proceed to proceedings — has been scheduled for aboriginal September.

Should Boucher-Gionet beryllium ordered to basal proceedings successful the Court of King's Bench aft the preliminary inquiry, helium has elected to person his lawsuit heard earlier a justice and jury.

Dunn said she called the Crown's bureau repeatedly past week to inquire for an update connected the lawsuit erstwhile she learned Boucher-Gionet would beryllium freed wrong days. 

"I should person been notified immediately," she said. "There was conscionable a deficiency of connection connected their part, which I deliberation that was, you know, a occupation truly poorly done." 

She said Boucher-Gionet's merchandise sets a troubling precedent for survivors of home unit hoping to question justness and extortion from the courts.

"It sends the incorrect message." 

The Crown prosecution work told CBC it would not beryllium due to remark connected Boucher-Gionet's merchandise arsenic his lawsuit remains earlier the courts.

The Crown alternatively provided a connection detailing the authorities surrounding an accused's close to release, noting that each accused idiosyncratic has the close "not to beryllium denied tenable bail" without conscionable cause.

After an apprehension is made, an accused is entitled to a bail oregon "show cause" hearing, careless of the charges, to find whether helium oregon she tin beryllium released until the proceedings date, officials with the Crown wrote successful an email to CBC.

"If the accused idiosyncratic is capable to establish, connected a equilibrium of probabilities, that their detention is not justified connected immoderate of the grounds enumerated successful the Criminal Code, past accused indispensable beryllium released," the connection said.

"In each bail situations, the Crown and the tribunal indispensable marque a determination based connected the applicable facts presented astatine that time." 

When helium was arrested successful Rovere's killing, Boucher-Gionet was connected probation for threatening to termination Lillian Kuervers, a pistillate helium considered his foster mother, successful August 2023.

Kuervers said she is present connected edge. 

She said she is moving her children retired of her home. She has begun packing, and plans to determination retired of the Edmonton flat she has called location for much than 2 years.

Kuervers told CBC she has nary religion successful tribunal orders to support her safe. 

"All of these no-contact [orders] and everything. It's conscionable a portion of paper," she said.

"Our justness strategy does not support victims."