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FIRST READING: The shockingly small number of men causing all the crime

BC just released a criminal with 274 convictions; one for every month since his 18th birthday

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Amidst B.C.’s election campaign, B.C. Conservative leader Lorne Doerkson issued a statement over the Thanksgiving weekend denouncing the latest release of an individual he called “Nanaimo’s most prolific offender.”

Aiden Tye, 41, has accumulated 274 criminal convictions — an average of one criminal conviction per month since his 18th birthday.

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Tye’s crimes include throwing a brick at a four-year-old girl. The brick instead struck the girl’s pregnant mother, who dove in the way to protect her daughter.

More recently, he defecated on his hands and smeared feces on the windows of a coffee shop that had thrown him out.

The feces incident was only in January, but Tye’s 271-day sentence is already up, thanks in part to a stretch of pre-sentencing detention, as every one day Tye spent in jail prior to a criminal sentence was counted as 1.5 days of a post-sentence jail term.

As Doerkson wrote, Tye’s release is emblematic of a system where “repeat violent offenders (are) released again and........

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