Langford teen’s killer denied bid for full parole
Kimberly Proctor’s aunt says murderer was trying to ‘slip through Corrections Canada’s cracks’
One of the young men who sexually assaulted, tortured and murdered Langford teen Kimberly Proctor a decade ago has been denied a bid for full parole.
Family members of the victim expressed concern that teen killer Kruse Wellwood was able to apply for various forms of parole so early in his life sentence and insist that he remains a danger to society.
“The extreme violence and brutality of the crime is still fresh in the minds and emotions,” the board’s decision noted.
Wellwood is considered a “monster” by Proctor’s family, said Kimberly’s aunt Jo-Anne Landolt.
“Adding to this troubling time of COVID-19, it is pathetic to think he’s trying to slip through the Corrections Canada’s cracks,” she wrote to Postmedia.
Wellwood has also applied for day parole and escorted temporary absences, which were both denied last August.
While Wellwood completed a high-intensity sex offender program in 2018, assessments considered by the Parole Board of Canada identified traits consistent with sexual deviancy, sadism, psychopathy and “indications of necrophilia.”
A psychological assessment completed last year noted that Wellwood was “cool, detached, confident, arrogant, superior, and entitled.”
“The psychologist was unable to envision a scenario where (he) would be in the community without supervision,” the report notes.
Now 26, the former teen killer is still prone to “temper tantrums” and “self-harming behaviours such as hitting (himself) in the head and pulling (his) hair.”
A word of warning: A full accounting of Wellwood’s crimes are detailed in the parole board decision and they are gruesome in the extreme.
Wellwood was 17 when he and his accomplice murdered the 18-year-old Proctor by choking. They froze her body, carried her on a bus and then set her remains on fire near Galloping Goose Trail in southern Vancouver Island.
The attack was sparked by Proctor’s refusal to date either of the boys. Pretending to apologize, Wellwood spoke at length with Proctor while planning her kidnapping and murder with his accomplice.
Court information indicated Proctor was bound and gagged with her airway restricted. She was sexually assaulted repeatedly by her attackers. Her body was mutilated by a knife, and objects were inserted into her body cavities.
The sentencing judge noted that the boys “brutalized her for hours before killing her and subjecting her body to mutilation and indignities.”
Wellwood was sentenced as an adult and his potential for reintegration into society is considered low by corrections authorities.
Background information considered by the court during trial noted that Wellwood’s behavioural issues began when he was in Grade 3. He was known to be verbally and physically abusive to his mother. He was a defiant, argumentative and sometimes violent teenager, who set fires.