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Alkhalil is not the first person to escape from North Fraser.

In August 2008, Dean Douglas Sykes posed as his own cellmate and was taken to court where he was released as the other man. When he was caught a few days later, he received a 14-month sentence.

And in November 2007, gangster Omid Tahvili bribed a prison guard who helped him escape from North Fraser. He was never recaptured.

The B.C. corrections officer, Edwin Ticne, was later sentenced to three years, three months in prison for breach of trust. Crown lost an appeal to increase the sentence.

Tahvili’s escape was recorded by video cameras showing that Ticne “escorted Mr. Tahvili through four security doors between his living unit and the public exit from the pre-trial centre where they parted,” the B.C. Court of Appeal noted.

Ticne then “facilitated Mr. Tahvili’s passage through the security doors by pushing buttons that alerted staff in the central control area who unlocked the doors after identifying the respondent and a person apparently a contract cleaner.”

Tahvili had changed into clothes matching those worn by contract cleaners at the pre-trial centre.

Ticne left the jail and “drove to a near-by service station where he was to receive $50,000 for getting Mr. Tahvili out of prison,” the court ruling said. However, “No one met him and he received no money.”

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Rabih Alkhalil is a 36-year-old Palestinian-born gangster whose family settled in the shittiest shithole in Canada, the Vancouver suburb of Surrey, B.C.

His older brother Nabil Alkhalil, 42, was shot dead in a suburb of Mexico City on Aug. 24, 2018. He had moved to Mexico from Vancouver in 2013 after he was threatened with deportation for cocaine trafficking.

Another brother, Khalil Alkhalil, 19, was shot dead in Surrey, B.C., in 2001.

with ties to the Hell’s Angels, the Independent Soldiers, and the Red Scorpions. He and his brothers, who has resided in various Canadian cities.

In 2017, an Ontario judge sentenced Alkhalil to life in prison for the first-degree murder of a man in a Toronto coffee shop. He was also given a concurrent sentence of 20 years for conspiracy to commit murder.

In 2020, in Quebec, Alkhalil was sentenced to 8 years in prison for drug trafficking.

On August 30, 2022, after his escape from the North Fraser Pretrial Centre, a jury found Alkhalil guilty of first-degree murder, the crime for which he was standing trial in British Columbia.

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Kash Heed, former B.C. Solicitor General and Public Safety Minister, had this to say:

“I have never in my 32 years in policing, and my time since policing, seen such an inept investigation on a suspected murderer that has escaped from one of our secure institutions.

I visited that institution, you just have to look at the incredible surveillance system that they have there, the quality of that system, and how could you not have images of individuals that assisted in that escape not available to the public,” Heed said. “But you have photos taken off the internet, that are not even them, that you publish as accomplices to the escape?”

Heed said there are overlapping security systems and checks and balances. 

“For you to get into the facility or anywhere near where some of the prisoners would be, especially some of these high risk prisoners, you will have gone through several surveillance systems or you ought to have gone through several surveillance systems, which would have captured your image,” Heed said.

He also said the public deserves a full explanation, including for the delay in issuing the original bulletin about the escape and the confusion created by the publication of fake identification of the suspects.

A former cabinet minister who oversaw B.C. Corrections says the North Fraser Pretrial Centre escape of Rabih Alkhalil and how the RCMP has communicated about the incident have dealt another blow to public confidence in the justice system. 

Coquitlam RCMP said Alkhalil, 35, was dressed in a black jumpsuit and high visibility vest when he left in a white Ford Econoline van at 6:48 p.m. July 21 with two men posing as contractors. The next day, RCMP released photographs of the alleged accomplices and claimed they had identified them. RCMP was forced to admit July 23 that the photographs were not of the suspects, but stock photos published around the internet that resemble the suspects. 

Alan Mullen, who was chief of staff to former Legislature Speaker Darryl Plecas, spent 10 years as a correctional manager for Kent Institution and frequently visited North Fraser Pretrial Centre for inmate transfers between the federal and B.C. systems.

“We definitely have more questions than answers at this point, it's not clear whether these two accomplices even entered the institution, it's not clear whether they were on the compound or just outside the fence, whether they were in the building, we don't know, how deep they actually got in,” Mullen said. “We do know if given the reports that a blowtorch was used and one of the fences was compromised.”

While Solicitor General Mike Farnworth has said there will be an investigation, Mullen said it needs to be independent and conducted by someone who is from out of province and who knows the corrections system, in order to prevent another escape. 

In November 2007, it was an inside job. Omid Tahvili escaped North Fraser Pretrial Centre with help of guard Edwin Ticne. Tahvili was sentenced to 11-years in absentia for kidnapping. Ticne was sentenced to three years in prison.

Mullen said Alkhalil’s escape should also spark dialogue about whether to hold violent criminals and gang associates for long periods of time in a place like suburban North Fraser or at a higher-security federal institution in a rural area. 

“I think there's an opportunity to house them at a facility that's better equipped to handle that level of inmate high-profile, whether it be at Matsqui Institution or Kent or Mountain. You can still be on pretrial status, you can still be on a provincial status, you're not inhibiting their rights or freedoms, any more than you would at North Fraser, they just happen to be housed at a facility that's better equipped.” 

A key question for an investigation would be inmate-to-officer ratio. The more crowded a facility, the more officers are needed to prevent an escape. 

“How did this individual happen to be at that fence, at that specific time? I mean, the timing is impeccable. This was well-planned. This was well thought out, and it was well executed,” Mullen said. “It's scary that this can happen.”

Alkhalil’s first degree murder trial will go on without him on July 27 in B.C. Supreme Court. He is charged with the Jan. 17, 2012 killing of gangster Sandip Duhre at the Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel in Vancouver. Hells Angel Larry Ronald Amero is also standing trial for conspiring to murder Duhre.

B.C. Supreme Court Justice Miriam Maisonville told the jury that Alkhalil had absconded and said she would instruct them later how to handle that fact. She also warned jurors to ignore any media reports about the case and reminded them that Alkhalil remains presumed innocent until the Crown has proven guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

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I suspect that the murderer has connections with Fidel Castros Bastard Son. Justin dispatched the breakout team and his portion of the reward is both easily traceable. Cheers!

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I personally that that JT is just a dumb-ass pretty boy rich kid, but it does seem that the corruption goes to the highest levels!

Prince Andrew was friends not just with Epstein, but also with Peter Nygard, the Canadian Epstein. I think that speaks volumes.

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All of these can be true at once.

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It looks like both Telegram links are pointing at Nevermore Media.

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thanking for catching this. I'll fix the link.

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you might envision a scene from a corrupt narco-state, with collusion from within the legal system. But no, It's Canada.

What does that say about Canada.

That's it a corrupt Marxist state, colluding with outside agencies to imprison it's people.

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I wouldn't say that it's Marxist, but it's definitely corrupt! Maybe it draws some inspiration from Marxist methods of statecraft, but it's seeming more and more like a narco-state!

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