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B.C. sex offender Hopley faces no new restrictions after 10-day vanishing

Premier says he can’t fathom the ruling after man who abducted a child in 2011 walked away Nov. 4
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Accused child abductor Randall Hopley is led out of the Cranbrook, B.C., courthouse on Wednesday Sept. 14, 2011. High-risk B.C. sex offender Hopley, who went on the run for 10 days in November, will still be allowed overnight community leave with the approval of his parole officer, after the parole board decided not to impose new restrictions. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Bill Graveland

High-risk B.C. sex offender Randall Hopley, who went on the run for 10 days in November, will still be allowed overnight community leave with the approval of his parole officer, after the parole board decided not to impose new restrictions.

Premier David Eby says he “can’t fathom” the ruling and it isn’t acceptable that Hopley, who abducted a three-year-old boy in 2011, has been “released again with the same conditions.

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