Maybe at last, the message is getting through to our courts: Repeat dangerous criminals should remain behind bars while they await trial.

So for now, Gergy Anthony Gorburn isn’t going anywhere. As of next week, hopefully more accused like him will also remain behind bars when Ottawa’s new bail reform law comes into effect.

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This week in Barrie, Gobrun, 51, was denied bail for the second time after he and four others from the GTA were charged in the violent kidnapping, torture and attempted murder of a Mississauga man held at an abandoned Orillia gas station. When the OPP rescued the victim, they alleged he’d been bound and beaten and was taken to a hospital in serious condition.

At his first attempt at bail last December, Gorburn was ordered detained by the justice of the peace. At his recent bail review, Superior Court Justice Donna Kellway found the JP made no legal error and upheld the decision to keep him in custody pending his trial. The evidence........

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