Bob Stall, Province Columnist, The Vancouver Province
 Sid Morrisroe
was featured on the front of yesterday's Province report. |
Is he being moved into or out of danger?
That was the question yesterday as jailers moved Sid Morrisroe out the side door to a secret new prison yesterday after his daughter shook up the system.
Tami Morrisroe told on the mob in yesterday's editions of The Province.
But in the process she also told on herself, revealing that she worked as an RCMP informer while pretending to be a loyal member of a gang of killers and drug dealers.
From deep in the federal witness protection program somewhere in North America, she said her biggest fear was that the mob would seek revenge against her by trying to kill her father.
He is in jail serving life for murder.
She was right to be afraid of this, senior Corrections Canada officials decided, so they moved Sid Morrisroe from Ferndale Minimum Security Institution in the Fraser Valley to another B.C. prison where they deemed security not as minimal.
Ferndale warden Ron Wiebe didn't disclose where Morrisroe was taken so as not to tip off the bad guys.
Nor did Morrisroe divulge his destination when he contacted me shortly before the move.
But he had grave fears about the wisdom of the decision. "They may as well sign my death warrant," he said.
The 63-year-old ex-prizefighter pointed out that the heavy criminals and hit men are not at Ferndale but in the maximum security facilities where he thought he was bound.
"Let's face it. They (the mob killers on whom Tami informed) have friends in all those places. They can come after me even if I'm in protective custody.
"It's easy for them to put out a contract in those institutions. Here I'm safer than anywhere else in the system because I know most of the guys. "
Wiebe said the problem at Ferndale is not the other inmates but the possibility of hit men coming from outside. There are no walls or fences around the Ferndale grounds.
"They can walk in the back 40, pat the horses and come right into the houses."
He said the move is temporary "until we can do a proper risk/threat assessment."
Said the warden: "I kind of like the old guy. He's part of the furniture around here.
"The last thing I want is for something to happen to him."
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