The woman convicted of stabbing a local realtor to death more than six years ago is to be released from prison Monday.
The woman convicted of stabbing a local realtor to death more than six years ago is to be released from prison Monday.
Lisa Ann McKay has served the entirety of her six-year, five-month sentence for killing 63-year-old William Edward Maloney in his Lacombe Park home in February 2006.
Gary Sears, spokesperson for the Parole Board of Canada, said McKay will no longer be bound by conditions to abstain from drugs and alcohol, reside at a specified location and report all relationships with males to a parole officer.
"In the absence of a long-term supervision order, most offenders reach their warrant expiry date and are no longer subject to the supervision under the Correctional Service of Canada," he said.
Long-term supervision orders are imposed by the court at the time of sentencing. No such order was put in place for McKay.
Law enforcement agencies that feel an individual poses a risk to the public on release can issue a public warning, but no warning has been issued for McKay.
Few details were shared during McKay's sentencing in 2006. During her parole hearing in October 2008, the mother of two revealed she met Maloney when she was 17 years old and working as a prostitute in Edmonton.
She said he was a "regular" and that the pair often used drugs together, adding he bailed her out of jail numerous times over their eight-year relationship and even gave her clerical work.
On the night of Maloney's death, the pair consumed alcohol, cocaine and sleeping pills.
McKay said she woke up hallucinating and grabbed a kitchen knife from the counter. When Maloney tried to take the knife from her, she stabbed him once in the stomach and four times in the chest, including a fatal strike to the heart.
Before fleeing the home for Edmonton, McKay grabbed a cordless phone, Maloney's personal mail and credit and bank cards.
She turned herself in to police five days following the killing after police issued a warrant for her arrest. McKay originally pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, but the charge was later reduced to manslaughter because she was high on drugs at the time of the slaying.
She got her first crack at freedom in December 2010, when she was released on statutory release.
Most inmates are released on statutory release after serving two thirds of their sentence – this can only be prevented if the offender is serving life or indeterminate sentences. The Correctional Service of Canada can recommend that an offender be denied statutory release.
When an offender is on statutory release, they are supervised in the community by the service and are returned to prison if they violate terms of release.
McKay violated her release conditions to report to a parole officer and returned to prison shortly after her first release date.
Her second release was back in March 2012, although a quick return to criminal behaviour had her sent back to prison again. She admitted to using drugs, missing her curfew and disappearing from a halfway house for three days.
She got her third crack at freedom in September and, according to Parole Board of Canada documents, did not violate her statutory release conditions.
