Chris Selley: Trina Campbell's murderer should die behind bars — obviously

Douglas Worth’s case proves the foreheads wrong in spectacular fashion. People get released from prison who obviously should never be

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Another tremendous moment in Canadian justice: Douglas Worth, 73 years old, once dubbed “the Pictou Sadist” after his hometown in Nova Scotia, is out on parole and living in Dartmouth, N.S. He has been out since July and, as National Post reported this week, recently had that parole extended — despite the parole board finding him to be an “above-average risk” to reoffend.

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Upon his release, Halifax Regional Police described him as “a high-risk offender.” They offered no advice on how Haligonians might keep themselves safe, but cautioned against any “vigilante activity or other unreasonable conduct.”

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And here’s what Worth “reoffending” might look like. In December 1987, Worth abducted 12-year-old Trina Campbell from a supermarket in Brampton, Ont.; brutalized and raped her; left her to die in a ravine; and later returned to strip, dismember, move and bury the corpse elsewhere.

Five months of investigation into Trina’s disappearance led police to Worth, and when police pulled him over for a chat, they found Trina’s decomposing head in a bag on the back seat of his car. A jury convicted Worth of second-degree murder. His minimum parole-eligibility period was 23 years behind bars, two short of the maximum. He served 35.

Worth certainly knows how to reoffend. At the time of Trina’s murder, Worth had recently been released on parole for two rapes. During that sentence, he told parole board officials that

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