After being convicted of negligently causing death and abducting 3 family members, the parole board decided to adopt the prosecutor's position • "It cannot be said that his public danger has expired"
Barbie Lily in Court // Photo Archive: Coco
The Ashkel Prison Release Committee on Tuesday accepted the position of prosecutor's office and ruled that prisoner Lily Barbie, who was sentenced to 11 years in prison for causing negligence and the abandonment of three relatives in a 2012 car accident in Netanya, is ineligible for early release.
In a committee hearing, headed by retired Justice D. Beit Or, the Southern District Attorney's Office objected to the inmate's request for early release, in part because of his criminal and traffic history. In addition, the committee gave weight to the position of the injured family.
Due to the special and exceptional circumstances of the case, which the State believes indicate a great deal of danger posed by the prisoner, this is because the rehabilitation program he passed is insufficient.
The Commission accepted the Attorney General's position and applied additional considerations, under section 10 (a) of the probation release, which states, inter alia, that "the release of the prisoner will severely impair public trust, the judiciary, law enforcement and many deterrence."
The committee's decision stated that "this is a case where there are special circumstances of a serious criminal past in which the prisoner displayed carelessness, high negligence and lack of empathy for his victims, and repeatedly jeopardized the public on the grounds of past offenses committed by him. Fully because it is someone whose public danger has expired.
The commission believes that the 4-year period that remains for a prisoner to serve is a long period of time, which results in an unreasonable relationship between the severity of the prisoner's offenses, their circumstances and the sentence he is sentenced to, and his term of imprisonment if he is released today, ie after 7 years in prison.