| Tami
Morrisroe briefly came out of
hiding yesterday to say she fears
someone is going to kill her
father. The
daughter of convicted killer Sid
Morrisroe, she made her first
public appearance since being put
in a witness-protection program.
Flanked by at least three cops,
she showed up in Federal Court in
Vancouver in another bid to get
her father released from prison.
And
in a news release issued after
her court appearance, Tami said
her father is not safe.
"I
am appealing to (Justice
Minister) Allan Rock and the
Liberal government to do the
right thing here before someone
kills my dad," she said in
the news release. "I am
asking that my father be at least
temporarily transferred into the
custody of the RCMP
witness-protection program and
that the RCMP be allowed to
investigate the information I
have brought to them about my
father's case."
She
was appealing some rulings made
during a clemency hearing for her
dad two years ago. But Judge
Daniele Tremblay-Lamer dismissed
her application after just 15
minutes.
The
judge said the matter would be
better dealt with at a judicial
review of the clemency ruling
that rejected a bid by Sid
Morrisroe to be freed.
A
date has not been set for the
review, but it's expected to be
held some time in the fall, said
government lawyer Mitchell
Taylor.
The
judge questioned why Tami came
out of hiding when she could have
stayed undercover and dealt with
the matter by court video or
teleconferencing. But Tami said
those options weren't made
available to her.
Security
was heavy. A TV cameraman who got
in an argument with a security
man in the lobby of the TD Tower,
which houses the Federal Court,
was ordered out.
Tami,
who insists her dad was framed,
went into the witness-protection
program after becoming involved
in an RCMP undercover operation
into a series of Lower Mainland
murders linked to organized
crime.
She
says she married Salvatore
Ciancio, a former cellmate of her
father's, when he told her he
knew Sid had been set up. Ciancio
has since been charged with six
weapons offenses.
Sid
Morrisroe was convicted of murder
in the death of Penthouse
nightclub owner Joe Philliponi.
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