A woman convicted of killing a St. Albert realtor in 2006 has once again had her statutory release revoked.
According to documents provided by the Parole Board of Canada, Lisa McKay had her release revoked Dec. 30, 2015, after breaching its conditions.
Parole board spokesperson Michelle Goring said decisions are made based on specific legal criteria, and follow a risk assessment and a thorough review of the file.
“The (board) considers a number of factors, but the protection of society is always the paramount consideration,” she said.
McKay is currently serving a 27-month sentence for charges relating to her robbing a 16-year-old girl in Edmonton at knifepoint on June 4, 2013. A 36-month sentence imposed March 11, 2014, less credit for nine months spent in pre-sentence custody, will be finished in June.
The 35-year-old also served a six-year, seven-month sentence for manslaughter after she admitted to the February 2006 killing of St. Albert realtor William Edward Maloney, 63, at his home on Lancaster Crescent.
According to news stories at the time, she said the two had an ongoing relationship for eight years when she was involved in the sex-trade industry. After a night of drinking, taking cocaine and sleeping pills, she said she woke up hallucinating. She stabbed him five times, inflicting a fatal wound to his heart that killed him.
While serving the sentence on the manslaughter charge, McKay had her release revoked twice, but successfully completed her sentence during a third period of statutory release.
Goring explained statutory release is different from parole. The board has no discretion whether release is granted to a particular offender. Rather, an offender is legally entitled to release upon serving two thirds of his or her sentence.
The board does, however, have the option of imposing conditions on that release. McKay will become eligible again for another period of release on March 24, 2016, after serving two thirds of the remainder of her sentence.
She will be subject to conditions to not consume alcohol or non-prescription drugs, avoid certain people, follow a treatment plan and report relationships to her probation officer.
In its written decision, the board noted that McKay had been successful during this recent period of release; that being Sept. 9. She was planning post-secondary education, avoiding alcohol and drugs and attending 12-step meetings daily, and avoiding people that may have triggered a relapse.
On Oct. 19, she met in person with a man she had been speaking to online, and ended up using drugs, and the board noted she has a history of breaching release conditions.
“Your failure to abide by release conditions has rendered your risk unmanageable in the community,” it wrote.
