In the matter of the Corrections Act 1997
and
In the matter of an Application for Parole by Jeffrey Peter Radloff
26 March 2004
(GIVEN ORALLY UPON HEARING APPLICATION)
The Parole Board considered your application for parole and is prepared to grant you parole.
The Parole Board is required to consider a number of matters that are set out in the Corrections Act. Of course one of the matters we have to consider is the nature of your offence. In that regard, on the 8th December 1995 you were sentenced in relation to offences of aggravated assault, stealing, aggravated armed robbery and on the 20th February 1996 you were further sentenced in respect to offences of armed robbery, attempted armed robbery, stealing, burglary and of course on the most serious crime of kidnapping. In respect of all of those matters you were sentenced to imprisonment for a total period of eighteen years.
The Judge at the time made a comment that:
“a sentence of 18 years imprisonment for a young man of 26 is a very heavy one. Had the sentences appropriate to each charge been imposed and made cumulative the aggregate sentence would have been a great deal higher and so crushing that some reduction has been required with totality principle. Notwithstanding the enormity of your crimes, society still has an interest in your eventual reformation, a sentence of 18 years imprisonment added to the express that was outraged at the commission of those thoughts of crimes in the community it should serve as a deterrent to the offender and to others like minded without crushing Jeffrey’s prospects of ultimate rehabilitation”.
Now we have taken into account the prospects of your rehabilitation and we have come to the conclusion that your rehabilitation is best served and best advanced on the outside of the prison system rather than within the system.
We have taken into account the fact that you have partially completed a university course and to be released from imprisonment at the age of 36 will enable you to complete that course while you are still young enough to at least get back into the workforce and to make a life for you and your partner. Any longer we think for you it would have a crushing effect on you and it would be unlikely that you would be rehabilitated back into the workplace. That would not benefit the public.
We have also taken into account the prospects of you re-offending and in that regard we commissioned, as you are aware, a psychiatric report from Dr Saxby-Pridmore, dated 17th March 2004. Dr Saxby- Pridmore, in his report, gave us some background – of course which we were aware of - that you appeared remorseful and that is a matter that we also note from our own observation and that you did not seek to justify you actions and you understood the emotional distress that your actions had caused.
Dr. Saxby-Pridmore considered that you had no psychiatric disorder and he indicated and suggested that you would not likely tore-offend and that you were a low risk offender.
We note your plans outside the prison system, in particular that you are going to reside with a woman (with whom you have a relationship) and her child. That woman is in employment and should provide a stable position or home for you to go to.
We take into account the letter from the Prisoner Support Unit, dated 23rd June 2003 which has supported your application for parole and also your letter of remorse of the 26th January 2004.
In summary we do not consider that you are likely to re-offend, we do not consider that society is served by you remaining in prison and that your rehabilitation would be better served outside the prison system.
You will be paroled from the 14th April, 2004 and remain on parole until the 5th February, 2013
