Parole board revokes day parole for Hells Angels hitman

Blair Rhodes · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 21, 2025 9:42 AM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

A erstwhile Hells Angels hitman has had his time parole revoked due to the fact that the Parole Board of Canada has recovered helium can't power his atrocious attitude.

Dean Daniel Kelsie, 51, is serving a beingness condemnation for second-degree murder.

Kelsie changeable and killed Sean Simmons successful the lobby of an flat gathering successful north-end Dartmouth, N.S., successful October 2000.

He was 1 of 4 men accused of the killing, which was allegedly ordered by a subordinate of the Hells Angels who was upset that Simmons had an matter with his wife.

Kelsie was initially convicted of first-degree murder, but the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal reduced the conviction, a determination upheld by the Supreme Court of Canada.

In the past fewer years, Kelsie has been successful and retired of situation connected time parole.

As the parole committee described it successful its determination from a proceeding earlier this month, Kelsie's occupation is his attitude.

"You explained your deficiency of patience, intolerance, and difficulties successful surviving with others by the information that you were not sleeping well, feeling immoderate stress, and had trauma from your past," the committee said.

It got truthful bad, the committee said, that 1 of Kelsie's roommates slept extracurricular the country to debar immoderate conflict. As problems mounted, truthful did the database of halfway houses that refused to accept him.

Each clip his parole was revoked, Kelsie would guarantee authorities that helium would bash better. But, the committee said, that didn't happen.

The committee said Kelsie had been "unable oregon unwilling to marque adjustments" to his threatening behaviour toward others.

"The Board disagrees with the appraisal of your CMT (case absorption team) that you person the skills needed to relation successful society, requiring lone adjustments. You person been provided with respective opportunities to marque specified adjustments and person demonstrated that you are incapable to bash so."

Simmons's household has intervened successful the past to dependable continued absorption to immoderate merchandise program for Kelsie.