Ellard’s boyfriend back in prison after breaching release conditions

Darwin Duane Dorozan, Kelly Ellard’s boyfriend and the father of her son, remains in prison after the Parole Board of Canada found his risk to society unmanageable.

At a Sept. 25 hearing, the board revoked Dorozan’s statutory release. Federal offenders serving fixed-length sentences are entitled to statutory release after serving two-thirds of their sentence unless they are considered likely to commit a serious offence before the end of their sentence.

The board found Dorozan had tampered with his electronic monitoring device and breached his release conditions by associating with offenders under supervision in the community, downloading an encrypted communications app to delete messages on his cellphone and manually deleting messages on his cellphone.

Dorozan, 44, has a lengthy criminal history that includes robbery and kidnapping a drug dealer who was tortured, shot and killed by his accomplice. He is serving a six-year, nine-month sentence for a string of violent break-and-enters in 2010 and 2011. Some of the homes were occupied. During one break-in, Dorozan sprayed the homeowner in the face with bear spray.

Ellard, who has changed her name to Kerry Marie Sim, was convicted of the second-degree murder of 14-yearold Reena Virk in November 1997. Ellard, now 35, was 15 at the time.

She was allowed conjugal visits with Dorozan, who was on day parole, in the spring 2016. She became pregnant and gave birth to a son in November 2016. Ellard was granted day parole in November 2017.

Dorozan was granted full parole in August 2016, but that was suspended when police identified him as a person of interest in the suspicious disappearance of a low-level drug dealer in May 2016. His parole was revoked in October 2016. The case remains open, according to the parole board decision, which was released last week.

In November 2017, the board granted Dorozan day parole. He appeared to be following his conditions, had negative urinalysis tests and was working. His statutory release began in May of this year.

On June 14, the National Monitoring Centre detected a tamper alert on Dorozan’s electronic monitoring device. The centre tried to contact him without success. His parole officer got in touch with Dorozan and told him to come to the office. When he arrived, Dorozan appeared “nervous and anxious,” said the decision.

The parole officer, who is an electronic-monitoring specialist, found a part was missing. He was “highly confident” the device had been deliberately tampered with.

The parole officer went through Dorozan’s cellphone and found emails and text messages to other supervised offenders, some with serious criminal histories.