Can Jatin Patel get kid gloves from justice system again?

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Jatin Patel hadn’t been back in Canada for 24 hours and was looking for action.

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At a Vancouver nightclub called The Penthouse, he found it in a prostitute named Shelby Tracy Tom. The deal was sealed at $400.

So the duo retired to the Travelodge Hotel. Room 214.

And they proceeded to have sex, but Patel noticed gender-confirmation scars on Tom’s body and then realized she was transgender. He freaked out in a white rage and strangled Tom to death.

Not to be denied, Patel left the room and returned with another prostitute who noticed Tom’s lifeless body. He mulled dismembering the body and tossing it in the ocean, but the second sex worker talked him out of it.

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Instead, he cruelly left Tom’s body behind a laundry, wrapped in a motel mattress cover and stuffed in a shopping cart.

That was on or about May 27, 2003.

Patel was charged with second-degree murder, but pleaded guilty to manslaughter in 2005. The sentence was nine years, but Patel had piled up lots of dead time, dropping the jolt to a little over four years.

In the intervening years, Patel has never been out of the news for long. Now, according to the Vancouverisawesome website, they’re back.

Ironically, in the last few years, Patel has also come out as transgender and uses she/her/they.

This time it’s for allegedly breaching a long-term supervision order as Patel appeared before Vancouver Provincial Court Judge Ellen Gordon on Tuesday via a video link while in custody. Patel faces two counts of violating an order, allegedly relating to incidents in November, Richmond News reported.

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And if Patel’s history is any guide, they may once more wiggle out of serious time if they are convicted.

After all, Patel managed to slither out of a dangerous offender designation, usually reserved for this country’s worst of the worst. A dangerous offender designation is a ticket to Nowheresville. You are never getting out.

Or at least, once upon a time, you didn’t get out. But this being Canada in 2024, the word “consequences” has been struck from the vocabulary of most judges.

After Patel won the lottery on the dangerous offender deal, he went on a rampage, committing more offences and violating parole conditions.

In the 2010s after being sprung from prison, they were was convicted of molesting a 13-year-old girl at a Safeway in Surrey, B.C. More?

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Patel also gave methamphetamine to another 13-year-old girl and sexually assaulted her at a low-rent motel.

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Now, the frequent flier — expected to soon be out on bail — faces two charges of violating a long-term supervision order related to incidents from Nov. 21, 2023. They have pleaded not guilty.

Patel allegedly failed to report a relationship or friendship to their parole supervisor. The second is that they allegedly owned, used or possessed a technological device allowing access to the internet.

That was allegedly done without the approval of Patel’s parole supervisor. Small beans really, but in the macro sense, par for the course.

But there have been other breaches and in April 2021 cops issued a warning that Patel was a “significant risk to adolescent girls and sex workers.”

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These convictions and patterns fell short for the soft-on-crime gang on B.C.’s Court of Appeal, which overturned the dangerous offender designation in 2020.

Justice Gregory Fitch wrote in his ruling allowing Patel to appeal that — by God! — the sentencing judge relied too much on the manslaughter and non-sexual convictions.

And the probem was? Well, Fitch did not like the sentencing judge’s suggestion that Patel “would likely continue to fail to control her sexual impulses in the future.”

Fitch huffed that “taints his conclusion that she met the criteria for a dangerous offender designation.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald said there are no second acts in American life. For Canadian criminals, the acts are seeminly limitless.

And co-starring the judiciary.

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