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The Correctional Service of Canada “does not know, nor may never know, the complete depth of your deceptive activities over recent months.”

Residents in Prince George, where Kelly owns an antique shop, submitted letters in support of his release, but the board partially dismissed them, based on Kelly’s “longstanding capacity to deceive those around [him].”

Kelly himself blamed his reporting lapse on a “drunken fog” brought on by downing two bottles of red wine a day, according to parole board documents.

The 62-year-old has consistently maintained his innocence in the murder.

“I did not kill my wife, sir,” Kelly told the board in 2010. “She went out [on the balcony] to check a rattle, slipped and fell.”

The police officer was juggling three affairs at the time and prosecutors alleged he was involved in money laundering. Days after Jeanette’s funeral, Kelly collected on his wife’s life insurance policy — which he had taken out without her knowledge — and hopped on a flight to Hawaii with a lover, according to Ontario Court of Appeal documents from 1999.

In 1993, Dawn Taber, a key witness who testified at his murder trial she had seen Kelly throw his wife over the balcony, went to authorities and said she had lied while giving evidence. However, the Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed Kelly’s application for a new trial, finding Ms. Taber’s recantation was not considered “fresh evidence.”

Last week’s move is not the first time Kelly has had his parole revoked. In 2003, just two years short of the 25-year sentence a convicted murderer would normally have to serve before becoming eligible for parole, he was granted parole under the “faint hope” clause.

Within months, he was back in jail amid allegations of financial fraud and juggling a series of secret romantic relationships.

In 1997, Kelly was portrayed by Paul Gross of Due South fame in Murder, Most Likely, a CTV movie about the case.

National Post, with files from Brian Morton