He shared with CityNews the emotional toll the process takes on families is insurmountable.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s always in the back of your mind you know it\u2019s coming and then when it comes, ugh, and you go through it again and again and again,\u201d said Cory.<\/p>\n
Public Safety Canada has said the government would listen to proposals that address victims\u2019 needs and strengthen their role in the correctional system.<\/p>\n
Cory and Leone, submitted victim impact statements for the hearing Thursday. <\/p>\n
\u201cIn 32 years, he has never reached out to us to express any kind of remorse \u2026 Please understand that the impact of this on us is debilitating. The anguish, despair and pain this has caused us is immeasurable. The insult to my brother is profound,\u201d read Cory\u2019s statement. <\/p>\n
Both Cory and Leone mentioned in their statements about what Gayle said to his victims during his 2019 bail hearing, \u201cI am sorry someone had to die that night, but I had to spend 25 years in jail\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter reflecting on what he had done for a quarter of a century \u2013 25 years of reflection, this is all that Mr. Gayle could come up with \u2013 he\u2019s the victim \u2013 he\u2019s sorry he had to put a bullet through the head of Police Constable Todd Baylis and attempted to murder me, but this pales in comparison to him spending 25 years in jail,\u201d said Leone.<\/p>\n
Leone also noted in his statement that they had asked to delay the parole hearing due to short notice, but the decision to delay was in the hands of Gayle and he refused.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be forced to ask for a favour from the person who executed Todd and tried to murder me was profoundly humiliating, degrading, insulting and an affront to our dignity,\u201d said Leone.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn this sense, our request for an adjournment was a gift to Mr. Gayle to give him the opportunity to show insight, ownership, responsibility and remorse. It was an easy opportunity for Mr. Gayle to do the right thing even if insincere. But he just could not do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMr. Gayle is a pathological and serial liar and a manipulator. Being a witness to his lies and manipulation from hearing to hearing before different panels of this Board without being meaningfully called out, has had an enormous impact on us,\u201d stated Cory. <\/p>\n
Todd\u2019s mother Sharon also contributed a victim impact statement Thursday, stating she would never forgive Gayle.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo this day and for the rest of my life my heart will never heal, and I will never be able to forgive you, Clinton Gayle, for doing this to him, to my family, or to me. You are a menace to society, to all people, to all those around you. You bring nothing but destruction and despair to all those you come in contact with,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhether or not you give Clinton Gayle his freedom today, you, and everyone else listening to or viewing this, will return to their normal lives, the night of June 16 relegated to the back of your mind \u2026 My family and I and Mike, on the other hand, will never be free from his actions, will never be free of the hell Mr. Gayle put us in. We are truly the ones who received a life sentence,\u201d concluded Cory\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n
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