By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained, I guess. 44-year-old Alvin Starblanket is serving a life sentence and wants out. He’s locked up for killing two men in cold blood. Among them a priest and a member of the Hells Angels who turned informant. Still, maybe the parole board would see things from his perspective?
Starblanket was sentenced to life in prison in 2008, the Montreal Gazette reports, after he pleaded guilty to the second-degree murder of Aimé Simard, a former member of the Rockers, a support club of the Hells Angels Nomads chapter based in Montreal, Canada, during the area’s bloody biker gang war.
Simard had turned his back on the club in 1997 when he became an informant. A vicious hitman himself, he admitted murdering three people for the club. As such, his cooperation did not earn him instant freedom and he was behind bars at the Prince Albert Penitentiary in Saskatchewan in 2003 when he was stabbed 187 times by Starblanket and another inmate.
The Montreal Gazette reports: “A witness who testified at the trial of the other inmate who attacked Simard said he was present when Starblanket agreed to kill Simard for $25,000. According to the summary of the parole board’s decision, Simard “had a contract on his life issued by a criminal organization.” Simard was about to testify in a murder trial in Halifax when he was killed.”
The crime that got Starblanket locked up at the penitentiary in Saskatchewan was killing a priest in 2002 in a northern part of this province. It earned him a 12-year bid.
Getting your life sentence overturned at a parole hearing is a huge obstacle. Getting your life sentence overturned after you stabbed a man dozens of times and killed a priest is… Well, I’d say impossible, but perhaps if Starblanket got on his knees and prayed?
Perhaps. But that’s not what he did. Instead, a month before his parole hearing he beat up “an elderly, disabled inmate, who was considered vulnerable” and “also attempted to use your foot to stomp on the inmate,” prison records obtained by the Montreal Gazette stated.
Even the guards had a difficult time getting him to stop the beating.
So, after taking all this into account, last week, the board “determined that you will present an undue risk to society if released on full parole.”
Can’t blame a guy for trying. Better luck next time?
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