Hells Angels hitman moans, while killer lectures judges

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For Canadians who suspect our justice system is a complete trainwreck, the past week has been pretty spectacular.

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A veritable Irwin Allen disaster movie. Think Towering Inferno, Earthquake, Poseidon Adventure. Take your pick.

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There was the convicted killer who lectured judges at a conference in Niagara-on-the-Lake that the system was too hard on people who break the law, like murderers who, say, are brazen enough to ice a Crown witness.

And on Friday, the National Post reported that a Hells Angels killer named Dean Daniel Kelsie is bewildered as to why the Parole Board of Canada takes his victim’s family’s word over his when it comes to granting him freedom.

I really can’t say I blame Kelsie. Generally, if you’re a thug, in Canada, you’re rolling about 50/50 that this sort of gambit will work. And, if it doesn’t, reach out to Ancestry.com.

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Kelsie murdered a man named Sean Simmons in Dartmouth in October 2000 in the lobby of his apartment building. Simmons had the temerity to have a sexual affair with the wife of a Hells Angels member.

And for that, he would die.

The genesis of Kelsie’s new appeal is pegged to his day parole being yanked.

“You submit that the board’s reasons demonstrate that the victims directly influenced the board’s decision, and you wonder about the actual impact of their presence and, more importantly, the weight that the board gave to their representations and attendance,” as per the Post, the appeal division wrote in its latest decision.

Bottom dwellers treated best

Kelsie’s attitude is a result of years where, as he accurately points out, primary importance was given to the feelings and whims of the utter dregs of society, Canadian and otherwise.

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One of those bottom dwellers is a man named Cosmo Jacobson, a “cool” friend of university law professors and a stone-cold killer. One of those sycophantic law professors invited Jacobson (their “cool” friend) to a provincial judges’ conference in Niagara-on-the-Lake.

There, first among equals, Jacobson sat on a panel discussing the treatment of inmates and the implications of prison conditions, the Toronto Star’s ace courts reporter Jacques Gallant wrote. Even for some of the small army of Liberal-appointed judges, this was too much, beyond the beyonds.

“Cosmo Jacobson is a convicted, ruthless murderer who extinguished the light of a brave soul,” Ontario Court Justice Brenda Green wrote to her colleagues in an email obtained by the Star. “This crime sent a silencing message to the community, especially the Black community: Do not cooperate or step forward because the police cannot protect you.”

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Jacobson was convicted in 2005 of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder.

His target was Crown witness and security guard Ray Jones, who was gunned down near his Ajax home. The beloved young man had been slated to testify against Jacobson in a home invasion case.

As he returned home after work, Jones was ambushed. At trial, budding academic Jacobson denied involvement and blamed a buddy, who also went down for murder.

Judges ‘expressed concerns’

Both the Star and the Globe and Mail reported that several judges “expressed concerns about the panel (ie. Jacobson).”

And yet someone in the fecal-filled bowels of a rotten system thought of inviting Jacobson to lecture judges. This tells Canadians pretty much everything they need to know at this point.

Cosmo Jacobson was convicted in 2005 of first-degree murder. An automatic life sentence without a shot at parole for 25 years from when the killer first went in. The math doesn’t appear to add up, particularly when you consider Jacobson’s escape attempts.

Green added in her email: “He made the informed choice to commit a planned and premeditated murder to silence a witness. His moral responsibility for his crimes was not attenuated by his life experiences.”

Of course it wasn’t, but then again, we have a justice system that loves guys like Cosmo Jacobson.

bhunter@postmedia.com

@HunterTOSun

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