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For the parents of a woman murdered at a southeast Calgary house party in 2012, the heartbreaking trip down memory lane isn’t a long one.

Pleading guilty to manslaughter and sentenced to eight years in prison in 2014 in connection with the shooting death of 27-year-old Amy Sands two years earlier, Jesse George Hill was granted statutory release this month after only serving a little more than three years.

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It’s a concern on many levels for Amy’s parents, who question on a number of fronts the effectiveness of such a short sentence.

“It becomes one of those things, it raises the spectre again,” said Ed Sands, Amy’s father.

“Is this justice, was justice done? It takes you back to the trial and the sentencing.”

Amy Sands died in the early-morning hours of Aug. 31, 2012, after shots rang out at a house party in Dover.

The bullets were meant for her former boyfriend, with whom Hill had been in a heated argument.