A second of three gangsters who pleaded guilty to a role in the brazen 2011 Kelowna murder of Red Scorpion Jon Bacon is set to be released.
The second of three gangsters who pleaded guilty to a role in the brazen 2011 Kelowna murder of Red Scorpion Jonathan Bacon is set to be released from prison.
But UN gangster Jujhar Khun Khun, now 37, will have to abide by special conditions that the Parole Board of Canada has ordered because of his continued “propensity for violence.”
Khun Khun is now eligible for statutory release after having served two-thirds of a 10-year sentence imposed after he pleaded guilty in May 2018 to conspiracy to kill Bacon. Almost all Canadian inmates get statutory release, though some are placed on special conditions.
For Khun Khun, those conditions will include living in a halfway house, close monitoring of his electronic devices and finances, a curfew and a ban on him associating with any criminals.
Their gangmate, Jason McBride, pleaded guilty to the second-degree murder of Bacon and the attempted murder of Hells Angel Larry Amero and Independent Soldier James Riach. He was sentenced to life.
Board member Maria del Vanegas Guzman noted the terrible impact of the daytime shooting outside Kelowna’s Delta Grand Hotel.
“Serious harm was caused by shootings with guns and automatic rifles on a Sunday afternoon in the driveway of a hotel in Kelowna in a planned retaliation for the killing of one of your associates,” she said. “Forty-five expended cartridges were recovered at the scene and 34 bullet entrance holes were located on the vehicle where the victims were targeted.”
She said Khun Khun remained connected to his “security threat group,” the term the Correctional Service Canada uses for gangs.
“Despite signs of improvement, you assaulted an inmate, engaged in problematic behaviours and continue to be involved with negative associates affiliated to security threat groups,” Vanegas Guzman noted.
Khun Khun was captured on CCTV punching and kicking the other inmate in September 2023 “because fentanyl had been introduced in contravention of the wishes of the predominant security threat group, which placed you in a position of influence within the institution,” the board member said in her written ruling, dated Nov. 29.
“Due to your use of violence and your level of influence within the inmate population, your behaviour was deemed as no longer manageable within a medium-security facility, and you were involuntarily transferred to a maximum-security prison.”
She said prison intelligence officers “strongly believe” that Khun Khun holds “a leading role in the drug subculture at the institution” despite his denials.
He was caught with steroids earlier this year, the ruling said.
Khun Khun told his case management team that he had job prospects once released and also planned to make money selling a book he wrote in jail.
Vanegas Guzman said the longtime criminal has been “engaged in self-learning, and you completed close to 10 vocational certificates from 2021 to 2023.”
“While the board finds that you have engaged in productive and positive activities during your incarceration, the board has concerns because you still show deficits in pro-social problem solving skills, lack consequential thinking, and display violent and aggressive behaviour,” she also said.
Because the Kelowna shooting was part of a series of tit-for-tat murders in the long-running B.C. gang conflict, Vanegas Guzman said Khun Khun shouldn’t live anywhere near cities where warring groups congregate.
“You shall be under a geographical restriction, which mitigates your risk by preventing you from entering the areas of British Columbia where there is still a large presence of security threat groups,” she said.
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