Posted Jan 20, 2023, 1:24 AM
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A long and detailed article on prolific offender Mohammed Majidpour who bashed a woman on the head with a pole, infamously stalked another through downtown etc etc. I must say I find it odd with such in-depth reporting that there is nothing on how he ended up in Canada with all his family elsewhere.
How B.C.’s ‘catch and release’ system is failing victims of random assaults and repeat offenders
MIKE HAGER
VANCOUVER
PUBLISHED 1 HOUR AGO
Before he pleaded guilty to his 10th random assault, and before politicians began invoking his name to criticize the way British Columbia’s courts “catch and release” repeat violent offenders, the only crime on Mohammed Majidpour’s record was a common one among people self-medicating on the streets: stealing alcohol.
When he was charged for that minor theft in 2014, the first of his 38 offences on the public record, he was homeless and using heroin in Vancouver.
Mr. Majidpour had returned to the city, his hometown, after spending a few months with his extended family in Houston, where he was reconnecting with loved ones while trying to stop using drugs. He was 26 years old, and his boyhood dream of becoming a pilot was foundering.
Mohammed Majidpour on a flying lesson over Vancouver in 2008, and in a photo released this past September when police were looking for him in connection with an assault case.
One of his hosts in Texas, a cousin who now lives in Tehran, said a well-known gangster in Vancouver was among Mr. Majidpour’s closest childhood friends.
“He was surrounded by bad friends. I never got much information about that, because after he went back up to Canada, we only heard from him once or twice a year and never got back any answers to our questions,” said the cousin, whom The Globe and Mail is not naming because he didn’t want to be associated with Mr. Majidpour’s criminality...
... The Houston trip was a big step for Mr. Majidpour. He had remained in Vancouver while his father died of lymphoma in Tehran in 2012. He would do so again when his mother died in the Philippines in 2021.
Over the years, both sides of his family had tried to pay for him to fly to Manila, where he has a younger brother and sister, or to the Iranian capital, where his father’s family lives, but the young Canadian was struggling so much that he couldn’t get a passport, his cousin said....
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-bc-catch-and-release-system/
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