CRIME control = CRIMINAL control NOT gun control !

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Ottawa failed twice to deport accused killer:

PUBLICATION: National Post
DATE: 2005.01.12
EDITION: Toronto / Late
SECTION: News
PAGE: A7
BYLINE: Andrew Duffy
SOURCE: CanWest News Service
DATELINE: OTTAWA
ILLUSTRATION: Black & White Photo: Rod Macivor, Canwest News Service
/Ottawa attempted to deport Allen Tehrankari, seen in handcuffs in 1992,
in December, 2000, and in October, 2001.

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Ottawa failed twice to deport accused killer: Sister-in-law slain

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OTTAWA – An Ottawa man accused of murdering his sister-in-law last week
avoided two federal-government attempts to deport him to Iran in 2000
and 2001, in part due to support from the woman he allegedly killed.

Court documents show immigration officials declared Allen Tehrankari a
danger in December, 2000, three months later a Federal Court judge
quashed their first danger opinion. The court ordered a new hearing due
to a faulty assessment of the risk posed to Mr. Tehrankari by his
deportation to Iran.

The second attempt to deport Mr. Tehrankari failed in October, 2001,
when a judge again rejected the government’s argument that he was a
menace to Canadian society.

Federal immigration officials abandoned their attempts to deport Mr.
Tehrankari after the second decision.

Mr. Tehrankari, 36, faces a first-degree murder charge in connection
with the death of his sister-in-law, Barbara Galway, 46, of Almonte,
Ont. Ms. Galway’s charred body was found on Thursday near a popular
nature trail in Ottawa’s Mer Bleue Conservation Area.

Police believe Ms. Galway’s body was burned where it was found, but will
not say how she died.

Throughout his battle to remain in Canada, Mr. Tehrankari enjoyed the
strong support of his wife, Susan Pearce, and her family, including Ms.
Galway.

Ms. Galway twice wrote letters of support on behalf of Mr. Tehrankari,
who had married her sister in 1993 while he was serving a 12-year prison
sentence in connection with an Ottawa bank robbery and hostage-taking.

In a letter addressed to former immigration minister Sergio Marchi in
January, 1996, Ms. Galway beseeched him not to deport Mr. Tehrankari to
Iran, where he had been tortured as an army deserter and political
dissident in the 1980s.

“I would beg you to lift this sentence of death by agreeing not to
deport him to Iran,” Ms. Galway wrote.

A church volunteer and a mother of three, Ms. Galway told Mr. Marchi she
was gravely concerned “our country, which is regarded around the world
as a just and caring nation, would consider returning anyone to a
country where his execution is a virtual certainty.”

In an earlier letter, Ms. Galway praised her incarcerated brother-in-law
as a “kind and thoughtful individual who is anxious to better himself.”

But some prison officials were more cautious in their assessments of Mr.
Tehrankari.

As late as May, 1997, prison reports said he posed a high level of
concern to public safety and they expressed “ongoing concern” about his
emotional stability. Mr. Tehrankari had engaged in a hunger strike soon
after his arrest in 1992 and had been involved in a number of minor
conflicts with other prisoners and guards.

“Although the subject presents as a quiet and polite individual the
majority of the time,” one prison report said, “there has been some
indication that he has an anger management control problem, which needs
to be addressed.”

Mr. Tehrankari was released from prison in October, 2000, after serving
two-thirds of his 12-year sentence for bank robbery, kidnapping and
firearms offences.

Mr. Tehrankari’s court file includes four psychological assessments
which indicate he suffered no serious psychopathology. The reports were
generally favourable, but Dr. Robert Hoge did express concern about “his
emotional style of conflict resolution.”