Day parole extended six months for Lethbridge woman who killed her mother in 2016

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“Your case management team (CMT) indicates you have demonstrated stability with your mental health and have been addressing your emotional needs. A memorandum to file dated December 20, 2018, and shared with you on March 6, 2019, identifies your ongoing involvement with mental health professionals while on day parole.”

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The statement goes on to indicate that Praill does admit to hearing voices during quiet times and she agrees that those voices tend to be paranoid in nature. For example, asking why anyone would do anything nice for her.

However, that does not appear to curtail the possibility of full- parole in six months. According to the statement:

“Regarding release on full parole, your plan is to live with (redacted) in a different community than day parole. You will continue attending programming at college, and then look for employment. You have been working on applying for financial support. You will continue attending programming and mental health services. Your CMT indicates you have demonstrated stability with your mental health and have been addressing your emotional needs. Your risk is assessed as manageable on full parole. Your CMT recommends full parole be granted, with the same special conditions.”

Praill is to abide by several conditions, including not consuming, possessing or buying alcohol, she must take medication as prescribed, and she must follow her pre-arranged treatment plan.

She continues to be identified as a medium level of intervention based on static factors and with a low level of intervention based on dynamic factors. According to the Board, Praill’s accountability, motivation and reintegration level potential are assessed as high.

A victim impact statement was also read at the parole hearing written by a family member back in November 2016.

Background

Through an agreed statement of facts provided to the court on Nov. 4, 2016, it was revealed that Praill had been living with her mother, sister and several others at her mother’s north side home for several months, and that their relationship was strained. Praill’s sister told police that their mother had been emotionally abusive when they were young, with some physical abuse as well.

On April 28, 2016, Praill and her mother got into an argument over alcohol and cigarettes. Later in the evening, Praill was alone in the living room of the house, thinking about how angry she was at her mother and how she had been treated very poorly. She went to the kitchen, grabbed a knife and went into the bedroom where her mother was sleeping, stabbing her once in the side.

Praill’s sister, Jennifer, heard their mother calling out, “She stabbed me, she stabbed me in the heart,” and found Praill holding a knife and trying to leave the house. After a struggle in the front yard, the two waited for police to arrive.

Emergency personnel took Shelley to the Chinook Regional Hospital, where she died during emergency surgery. An autopsy revealed that her heart had been lacerated.