Convicted murderer who attended McGill's faculty of law now back in custody

Jeffrey George Ewert, a convicted murderer who has been attending law courses at McGill University in Montreal since September, is back in custody while authorities re-examine his case. According to Global News, Ewert is in his 60s and was convicted in the 1980s for second-degree murder and attempted murder involving two female victims in British Columbia, one of whom was 15 years old.

Global News reports that Ewert spent 40 years in federal prison and was granted day parole in 2025. Following news of his studies in early October, he was barred from the university campus. Retired judge and former prosecutor Rick Miller told Global News that Ewert was "the most brutal and evil" individual he dealt with during his time prosecuting the case 40 years ago.

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