The Parole Board of Canada reached its decision Tuesday after a long, emotional hearing at La Macaza Institution in Quebec, north of Montreal. The families of Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy — the schoolgirls Bernardo tortured and killed in the 1990s — pleaded with the parole board this morning to keep Bernardo locked away.

The mothers of two teenage girls who were tortured and murdered by Paul Bernardo made emotional pleas at a Parole Board of Canada hearing Tuesday to keep the notorious killer and rapist behind bars, as he makes his third attempt to secure a release.

Paul Bernardo , one of Canada’s most notorious criminals, hopes to be released to a halfway house in Quebec, possibly in Montreal, if he is granted a release during his parole hearing on Tuesday. A parole officer revealed this to the Parole Board of Canada while making a recommendation,