I'm With Joe........

November 6, 2007

Some might want to bring him back, but dead or alive O'Neil Grant is not welcome in Canada
By Joe Warmington

O'Neil Grant can just stay in Jamaica!

Dead or alive. Either way, he should never be permitted to come back here.

Turns out he's dead and his unnamed "wife" and "friends" want to bring the body of the slain, deported criminal back to Canada for burial.

There better not be any taxpayers' money spent on it.

It takes a lot of nerve to try to get this community to have sympathy for a criminal who was charged and later acquitted in the callous Just Desserts slaying of ViVi Leimonis.

But that's what seems to have happened. Some of our competing media outlets were actually running interviews that seemed to suggest one of the suspects in this heinous murder is a victim and that his body should be returned to the country that booted him back to Jamaica.

It was stunning and disturbing. They can offer it up but we don't have to sign on. Former Toronto Police chief William McCormack, who attended Leimonis' funeral, sure as heck hasn't.

'ROTTEN LITTLE BASTARD'

"That rotten little bastard?" was his reaction to allowing Grant back on Canadian soil. "It's ridiculous. He dishonoured this country! That's why he was deported. Why should they let him back in?"

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