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Quebec Justice Minister Sonia LeBel wants answers from Ottawa on how a murder suspect who had already served a prison sentence for killing his spouse in 2004 was out on conditional release at the time of the latest homicide.

LeBel described as troubling and worrisome the circumstances surrounding the death on Wednesday in Quebec City of Marylène Lévesque, 22, whom police allege was murdered by 51-year-old Eustachio Gallese. Gallese was sentenced in 2006 to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 15 years for the brutal slaying of his spouse two years earlier.

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LeBel said on Friday she intends to raise the issue with federal public security minister Bill Blair, since it is the Parole Board of Canada that oversaw Gallese’s case.

Saying she that while understood the “principles of social re-insertion,” LeBel noted that the Parole Board’s “guiding principle is above and beyond all else the safety … of the public,” adding that it needed to be determine whether the commissioners are “sufficiently equipped to evaluate risk.”