There’s something that doesn’t make a lot of sense in the following two paragraphs. See if you can spot it:

Recently-released Darnell Pratt, who dragged gas station attendant Grant De Patie to his death in 2005, was found and arrested the day after breaching his curfew.

Pratt was freed this week after serving seven years in prison, and ordered to live in a Kamloops halfway house. He disappeared on Friday, and police issued a Canada-wide warrant for his arrest.

Kind of difficult to serve seven years in prison if the murder occurred in 2005 and the year isn’t 2012 yet. Because he served fourteen months of pre-trial custody, the sentencing judge gave a credit ratio of one and one half time served.

Actually, as I recounted in April, although originally sentenced to 9 years in prison, the BC Court of Appeal reduced it to 7 years because the trial judge had not taken into account his “aboriginal ancestry and his exposure to family drug addiction.” He got out after 5 years, and promptly broke his parole.

Darnell Pratt was paroled with the most restrictive conditions possible, but breached his release conditions by leaving the halfway home he was assigned to. The police were forced to call the victim’s father, Doug De Patie, at 2am to inform him that his son’s killer had gone on the lam.

“He’s not taking the killing of [my son] Grant seriously.

“He killed Grant and Grant gave his life to stop Darnell from committing that crime that night and perhaps killing another family or someone else, and he’s really thrown it back in our faces now.”

Mr.De Patie said that he and his wife met Darnell Pratt in prison to give him a chance to apologize and express remorse for his crime, but he refused to apologize, denied the extent to which he was to blame, and only said “sorry” in a letter handed to the judge.

It would seem as though the judge was hopeful the young criminal could be reformed:

The sentencing judge related progress made by Mr. Pratt during his pre-trial detention towards obtaining his high school diploma and his interest in becoming a welder. Reference letters described him as “a pleasant, sociable, well-liked, thoughtful and kind young man”.

His welding ambitions will obviously have to be put on hiatus for a while longer. Meanwhile, Doug De Patie is spending his fifth Father’s Day without his son.