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"You [Khaled Farhan] are assessed as a low to low-end of moderate risk for both general and violence recidivism [as a violent predator and murderer]."
Parole board

Karina Janveau. n.a.

The new politically correct way of referring to males claiming their wish to be regarded as females is to refer to them as 'she'. And so, Khaled Farhan, a violently abusive male who murdered a vulnerable young woman and then left her corpse to fester until neighbours reported a repugnant odour and he was forced into action, completed his despicable act of violence and murder by mutilation and dismemberment. The mutilation refers to his having stabbed his victim repeatedly even after her death. The dismemberment was his method of ridding himself of incriminating evidence of his crime.

In 2000, the now-46-year-old was found guilty of second-degree murder in the death of Karina Janveau, then 24 years old. She was a young woman with a troubled background; the child of divorced parents, a young woman with very special needs whose mother committed suicide at Christmas. Karina Janveau suffered with a partially paralyzed leg and arm, and she had developed a drug habit. Those who knew her described her as generous, a loving individual.

A vulnerable young woman, ready to love anyone who needed it, she obviously chose the wrong man. Their relationship was fraught with physical violence. She was often beaten by her love-partner. The fact that she was physically impaired and unable to defend herself obviously made little difference to the man who abused her in life and debased her life with no conscience. And after he took her life he continued his abuse on her lifeless corpse.

Now this man has won parole, and anticipates his future as quiet and uneventful. His parole conditions mandate that he live at a halfway house, abstain from alcohol and drugs and routinely report relationships that may develop. Khaled Farhan who legally changed his name to Zahra Farhan informed the parole board 'she' has "no intention of being in a relationship"; her intention is to 'focus on herself'. As though as a male he never did just that.

Since being granted parole, he has been living at a halfway house since January with a six-month day parole to aid in reintegration into society. It's entirely debatable how 'integrated' he was in society to begin with; most people in civilized society don't murder others in a paroxysm of drug-induced rage; though society does have its psychopaths not all of whom would stoop to committing such bestial acts as he did.

During his trial, while describing placing the corpse of Karina Janveau -- with whom he had lived for a year as a 'devoted couple' -- in the bathtub of their apartment as he set about dismembering her he demonstrated not a whit of remorse. Now, years later, there have been other changes for this man aside from claiming to be a woman; he is sight-impaired and plans to have a Seeing Eye dog aid him. His plans also include helping the blind and transgender community.

What a transformation! From a ragingly psychotic murder and butchering of a corpse, this conscienceless man has become a 'woman', with aspirations to becoming a humanitarian aid worker. And the welfare of a dog trained to be a working dog is in this man-cum-woman's hands. How the parole board found that this sinkhole of vicious depravity represents a low risk to society is troubling, indeed.

Once he had completed his gruesome task of dismembering the woman he was supposed to have cared for, he disposed of half here remains in a dumpster close to their apartment and the other half in a duffel bag left a few hundred metres distant in a field by railway tracks in Gatineau, Quebec. He appeared on local television as a concerned husband pleading for information and help in finding his common-law spouse.

He had informed police that the young woman had gone on a camping trip with a dangerous drug dealer. It didn't take long for police to arrest him in the wake of a building superintendent making the grisly discovery of discarded body parts in a dumpster. Sgt. Guylaine Larose was one of the first Gatineau police officers on the scene. She was transfixed at the sight of the decomposed, bloody body parts.

In those body parts she recognized the remains of her younger sister. Afterward, the distraught police officer was unable to work but she did show up faithfully each day of the six-week trial that found her sister's killer guilty and sent him to prison. That was her only comfort, hearing the guilty verdict. But, she said, in an interview, her sister's murder returned to haunt her day and night, and she later killed herself at home with the use of her service revolver.

The murderer was placed in a men's prison where he spent time in solitary confinement; prison files revealing he had sent sexually inappropriate letters to guards. Then he expressed fear that he would become a casualty of other prisoners once he expressed his status as a trans woman. Prison authorities placed him in a woman's prison thereafter. And he is described constantly as 'she'; an entirely other person, a weak and vulnerable woman anxious to do good for others.

Khaled Farhan holds a picture of his then-missing girlfriend Karina Janveau shortly before he was arrested and charged with killing her. Aaron Sands/Postmedia