Nine years after David Kennedy and Hughie Sayers were brutally murdered with an axe, the man found not criminally responsible for their deaths will be free to live in the Battlefords again.
Layne Larose will be allowed to live in an approved home in North Battleford or Battleford with an operator committed to monitoring Larose and reporting to his treatment team, according to a decision by the Sask. Review Board on Friday following an application for release at a hearing last October.
A board hearing will be scheduled when an appropriate home has been located and conditions of Larose's release will be set at that time.
Larose, now 48, was initially detained in the Regional Psychiatric Centre and later Saskatchewan Hospital, where he was treated for mental illness.
Justice Peter Foley, chair of the Sask. Review Board, wrote in his decision that Larose represents a continuing risk to the community, but that risk is small.
"He is now ready to participate in the community and take his place as one of its productive members," Foley wrote.
