Accused Paskall killer considered high risk to re-offend after Ontario conviction

SURREY — The man charged in the murder of hockey mom Julie Paskall was considered a high risk to re-offend after an Ontario conviction for attacking another woman on New Year’s Day 2010.

Parole Board of Canada documents say that Yousef Jomo Gopaul has gang affiliations and a “history of both drug and alcohol abuse” that was considered a factor in the early morning 2010 attack on a woman in Brampton.

“Your case management team notes that you view violence as an acceptable means of dealing with problems and have demonstrated poor impulse control,” a July 2012 decision on Gopaul’s release stated. “You appear to have difficulty considering the short and long-term consequences of your actions.”

The board ordered Gopaul to live in a halfway house upon statutory release because of his on-going threat to the community.

They noted he had shown little remorse or insight into the violent attack on a woman he had followed from a bar at 2:30 a.m.

Gopaul’s victim “recalled being struck with punches and kicks and fighting back and being dragged by the hood of her jacket while she was naked from the waist down.”

Gopaul pushed the woman into a frozen creek as he fled.

When he was arrested a few days later, he told police he was “intending to have vaginal intercourse with the victim” and showed a “lack of remorse with respect to the harm you caused.”

Gopaul, now 27, was a difficult inmate while serving his two-year, seven-month sentence federal sentence that ended last June.

During one treatment program, he displayed “an inappropriate attitude including excessive swearing, side conversations, discussing inappropriate sexual content and glorifying drug use.”

He was later suspended from a violence prevention program in prison because of “disrespectful and verbally abusive behavior towards the program facilitator.”

The board ordered Gopaul should remain in a halfway house even after statutory release from prison because of “your extensive criminal history and threatening behavior, assessed level of risk and poor history of community supervision.”

The board told Gopaul “you fall in the high end of the moderate range to re-offend.”

“You also have a history of associating with negative peers and have been known to associate with members of the (blacked out name) street gang,” the documents state.

A psychological risk assessment from April 2011 said Gopaul is of “low average intelligence” and that his risk to re-offend was higher if he was using alcohol or drugs.

The board also ordered Gopaul to report “all intimate sexual and non-sexual relationships” to his parole officer and to stay out of bars and other drinking establishments.

And he was also ordered to stay away from “anyone involved in criminal activity or anyone who you may believe may be involved in criminal activity.”

“This would include anyone who is a member, associate, affiliate or hanger-on to any gang,” the parole board said. “It would also include anyone who buys, sells or uses illicit drugs."

Gopaul was also ordered to continue treatment “to be arranged by your parole officer to address issues related to your substance abuse and to your propensity for using violence to achieve your goals.”

The board said the special conditions were “reasonable and necessary to protect society.”

But on Gopaul’s first day in the half-way house, he violated his conditions by having two female visitors. He later went AWOL from the facility and was later arrested at another female friend’s home.

Gopaul then had his statutory release revoked in November 2012 and was then ordered to remain inside the facility under house arrest.

But on Aug. 19, 2012, he left the facility and got into an awaiting vehicle and an arrest warrant was issued. He was later found at the house of a female friend.

“In light of all these factors, the board concludes that you have the potential to be a danger to others in the community,” the documents state. “The board concludes that you need the monitoring, structure and support of a halfway house.”

The board noted that Gopaul had been “subject to nine community supervision orders and breached those orders on seven occasions.”

kbolan@vancouversun.com

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