Home-Grown Radical Islamist Jihadis

"You have not shown significant indications of change since incarceration, with you attempting to radicalize others and threatening authority figures."
"Had you followed through with these plans, you would likely have been directly or indirectly involved in the killing and injuring of many people."
"While  your violent history is limited, you displayed a significant commitment to  your cause and continued to engage in those beliefs while incarcerated."
Member of prison parole board

A parole board member described his potential harm to others and national security as exceptional.

"On 26 August 2016, the Larmond brothers and Suliman Mohamed pleaded guilty to terrorist offences related to the Islamic State and Syria. They had planned to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State and had attempted this travel on several occasions. One of the twin brothers, Ashton Larmond, was the group’s leader and had previously had his passport revoked prior to heading to Syria via Turkey. His twin brother, Carlos Larmond, was arrested at the airport on his way to Syria, via India. Suliman Mohamed had planned to travel to Syria but had not been able to obtain a passport. In their sentencing remarks, Judge McKinnon compared home grown terrorists, such as the defendants, to “a particularly virulent form of cancer that must be aggressively eradicated”. Ashton was sentenced to 17 years’ imprisonment, and Carlos and Suliman were both sentenced to 7 years’ imprisonment."
ICD-Larmond, Asser Institute

This is a man who was convicted of terrorism charges, sentenced to five years in a federal prison in 2016, described as posing an exceptional national security threat, fully capable of causing violent harm to innocent people, now freed under a law requiring federal offenders' release once they have served two-thirds of a fixed sentence. This is a law mirrored in Great Britain where the government is now focused on overturning it, after a number of early releases of terrorism-involved prisoners also considered potential threats, recently acted upon their deadly 'potentials' in jihadi terrorism.

The statutory release law is in no one's interest but that of those imprisoned with due cause, who continue to pose threats to the community at large. The offender is presumed to serve the rest of his sentence within the community. Carlos Larmond, now 29, and a convert to Islam who found jihad and plotting to murder innocent people much to his liking, has been freed to live at a halfway house. Restrictions? A curfew and no overnight privileges, and to submit to police checks reviewing his phone for search history.

He is scheduled for release in 2021, if he refrains from breaching those conditions. Arrested at a a Montreal airport in January of 2015 as he prepared to board a flight, presumably to Turkey to enable him to cross into Syria to attend an Islamic State training camp, he was fulfilling the role his twin brother, dominant in their relationship, had fashioned for him. Ashton Larmond was arrested in Ottawa and sentenced to 17 years in prison in recognition that he led a dangerous home-grown jihadi group posing a threat to Canada.

"You take the head off one of them, then you're in control", Ashton informed his brother Carlos, in an instructional for a successful terror attack, using just such an attack that took place at a cafe in Sydney, Australia, as an example. RCMP wiretaps caught Carlos' voice expressing his contempt for religious figures in Islam who decry violence; worse than infidels since they teach Muslims to 'sharpen pencils rather than knives'.

Surveillance video released by Canadian court, shoring attack in prison on Carlos Larmond after he threatened inmates for not converting to Islam.

While in prison custody before his conviction, Carlos Larmond had been attacked at the Medium Security Institute, awaiting trial, after he had threatened another inmate who refused to convert to Islam. Carlos informed prisoners that if they failed to convert to Islam, their families would be slaughtered by Islamic State.

The clique that the two Larmond brothers had assembled included Suliman Mohamed, sentenced at the same time as the Larmonds; Khadar Khalib, killed in battle fighting for ISIL, and John Maguire whose infamous appearance in an ISIS propaganda video shot overseas praised domestic terror attacks on Canadian military personnel. Another member of the group, accused of financing its activities is Awso Peshdary whose case is still before the courts.