Awet Asfaha was hoping to apply for parole immediately following his “faint hope” hearing. Instead, he’ll have to wait until 2033 after the jury knocked just one year off his 25-year parole-ineligibility period in the daylight murder of an innocent Toronto stranger.
After two weeks of extremely supportive testimony from prison guards and a life coach, followed by one afternoon of searing condemnation by the family of the man he murdered, the jury decided Asfaha still has a long way to go to prove he is a changed man from the day in 2009 that he fired three bullets into Bishen Golaub’s back.
