Man convicted in 2007 attack still too dangerous to be released from prison

The Parole Board of Canada has ruled that a Nova Scotia man is still far too high a risk to be released from prison.

And that decision is, apparently, just fine by him.

Michael Derrick Robicheau was declared a dangerous offender in 2013 and ordered locked up indefinitely. The sentence followed a vicious attack on a Dartmouth, N.S., gas station attendant in 2007. Robicheau sexually assaulted the woman and slit her throat, leaving her for dead. She survived.

When he was arrested a short time after the attack and asked why he did it, Robicheau replied that he wanted to "get more time".

He had completed a prison sentence days before the gas station attack and told officials at the time that he did not want to be released.

'Untreated violent offender'

A psychologist conducted another assessment of Robicheau in March and found no changes in his situation since the last review.

"He considers you to be a dangerous, untreated violent offender, and violent sex offender," the parole board noted following a hearing last week.

Robicheau did not participate in the hearing so the board relied on file information.

"[Y]ou are extremely institutionalized and are comfortable in a correctional setting," the board wrote.

"You are said to have acted impulsively during the time of your offences, starting with absconding from the halfway house, and committing your index offences as a way to return to prison as that is what you preferred."

The board went on to write that "you stated having no release plan and that you are not interested in a release."

Despite Robicheau's apparent unwillingness to be released, his case is still the subject of periodic reviews.