Day parole will continue for a man convicted in a gruesome double murder that occurred in Tsawwassen over three decades ago.
Following a review, the Parole Board of Canada this month decided to continue Derek Lord’s day parole for another six-month period.
He has extended leave privileges for 21 days at his family home and must stay two days in a community-based residential facility. Various conditions continue including not travelling to the Lower Mainland and having no contact with the victims’ family members, including extended family members, as well as Crown witnesses.
The Appeal Division recently ordered a review of the parole board’s decision to deny full parole for the 50-year-old Lord.
Lord and his friend David Muir were hired in 1990 by Darren Huenemann to kill Huenemann’s mother and grandmother, Sharon Huenemann and Doris Leatherbarrow, so Huenemann could get an inheritance. The women were killed in their Tsawwassen home.
All three young men were convicted of first-degree murder in 1992.
Lord, who continues to claim his innocence, was granted day parole with conditions in March 2020 and that has been continuing at six-month intervals.
Muir was granted day parole in April 2002 and full parole a year later.
Huenemann, who now goes by the name Darren Gowen, was granted day parole on six-month intervals starting August 2022.
