Colin and Theresa Bulloch of Sudbury are angry that their son's killer has been set free.
14-year-old Brayton Bullock was murdered by his cousin, Nick, in Barrie in 2006.
The sentence was life in prison, but the convicted murderer was set free last week after a plea bargain deal made during an appeal to make it manslaughter.
The Bullochs feel the justice system protects offenders and is putting the public at risk by letting the man who killed their son go free.
“Ifear for my family. I fear for you people out there. He is a walking time bomb that should not have been put on the street.” said Brayton’s father.
Theresa Bulloch is Brayton’s stepmother.
“The events of last week have left me and my family feeling very afraid. We have to live the rest of our lives basically feeling like we have to have our heads on a swivel. The person that was released from prison has threatened our family, that we would all die.” said Theresa.
Brayton, 14, was lured into the woods by his cousin, Nick, and then viciously stabbed to death.
Last year, the appeal court tossed out the murder conviction in the case after it was found police failed to give Nick his proper rights as a youthful offender.
“For them to justify them saying ‘oh, it's a poor boy,’ that he sat in an interrogation room for an hour to an hour and half by himself. That, and to say it out loud to the family, that that's why he got his appeal. You just stabbed a person 14 times, one so hard it went through his skull.” said Brayton’s father.
The couple recognizes there is a Canadian Victim's Bill of Rights that Colin Bulloch helped lobby for and say that victims also need a Charter of Rights.
