Warning: this story contains details of violence and sexual assault
An application for day parole by one of the two men who killed Langford teenager Kimberly Proctor in 2010 has been denied.
Thirty-one-year-old Kruse Wellwood was 16 when he and 17-year-old Cameron Moffat lured 18-year-old Proctor to his home, where they sexually assaulted and brutalized her over a period of several hours.
Proctor was strangled and suffocated until she died – her badly burned body found the next day beneath a bridge.
Both Wellwood and Moffat pleaded guilty in 2011 and were given life sentences for first-degree murder and indignity to a dead body. Their eligibility for parole was set at 10 years.
Moffat was denied day parole in November last year, and then denied full parole in May due to a high risk of violent reoffending.
Wellwood had previously unsuccessfully applied for day parole in 2022. An appeal against the decision was also denied in 2023.
In his recent application for day parole, Wellwood requested to either reside at a community residential facility in the Fraser Valley or the Lower Mainland. While he had no confirmed employment, Wellwood had expressed an interest in working in trades.
However, the Parole Board of Canada said Wellwood’s risk for “future general, violent, and sexual offending is high,” and that he has not made the necessary gains to mitigate that risk.
A decision supported by Wellwood's most recent psychological risk assessment in July, which noted his risk to reoffend could not be managed effectively in the community and that further treatment of his sexually deviant interests was necessary.
“Though you have participated in programs designed to address these risk issues, subsequent to their completion, you have continued to show evidence of sexual preoccupation and deviant arousal to sadistic themes,” said the parole board in its decision, made late-September.
This includes the discovery of approximately 100 “sexually deviant drawings” found in his cell in June 2023, depicting the sexual abuse and torture of women, pregnant women and children “with words and story lines containing profanity, degradation and sadism,” the parole board says.
According to the report, Wellwood wrote a letter to the parole board claiming the drawings are pure fantasy and are a positive and healthy outlet for him.
“You have acknowledged the sexual nature of the drawings; however, you do not agree that the drawings are related to your sexual deviancy and have continued to rationalize and minimize the concerns about the artwork,” the board said.
The parole board also notes it was discovered in May that since September 2024, Wellwood had been in correspondence with someone in the community who had told him they were a 17-year-old girl – information he had not shared with his case management team, as he knew they would forbid it.
"When the exchanges were discovered, you accepted the direction to cease communication though you did not think there was anything wrong with it," said the report.
His failure to disclose the correspondence with the 17-year-old girl was cited as an example of Wellwood's unwillingness to work with his case management team, who he claims are "overly pessimistic" about his risk to reoffend – he also says he cannot trust them.
"Based on these considerations, it is the board's opinion that you will, by re-offending, present an undue risk to society if released on day parole and that your release will not contribute to the protection of society by facilitating your reintegration into society as a law-abiding citizen," concludes the report.
