Sunday, August 1, 2010

A Wound Reopened

Kathy Mason, the mother of a murdered CRHS student, fears her daughter’s killer would be released from jail after serving less than half his original 30-year sentence. Peter Henriques has spent the past 13-years incarcerated in various correctional facilities for the murder of his late girlfriend Nielsa Mason on April 28, 1997. Nielsa body was found fully clothed in the boys locker room inside an open locked beaten and strangled. In 2006, an appellate court overturned Henriques’ conviction after the panel found that police improperly interviewed the teenager without his mother being present. Since that time Henriques has been in the Cumberland County Jail as prosecutors sought a way to bring him back to trail without using his statements. However, Prosecutor J. McRae has told the Mason family that her office is planning to offer a plea deal that would set Henriques free, because it lacks the evidence necessary to retry the case. Personally, I think it is best for him to finish out his term. If he does get out early, there is a chance that Nielsa’s family or friends will try to kill him due to them still being broken heart and looking for revenge.

1 comment:

  1. That is horrible. If he gets out the court should turn the other way if anything happens to him because by letting him out that's all they are doing for him is looking the other way and who's fault would it be if another girl turns up dead on account they just let loose a killer. Once a killer the blood stains the hands so it will only happen again.

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