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The Parole Board of Canada has granted full parole to one of three men convicted in the brutal murders of three McDonald's restaurant workers in Cape Breton more than 30 years ago.
The Parole Board of Canada is scheduling a hearing to consider full parole for Freeman MacNeil, who has been in prison for more than 30 years after he and two others robbed a fast-food restaurant, killing three employees and critically injuring another in 1992.
Freeman McNeil, one of three men convicted in the brutal killing and injury of four McDonald's restaurant employees in 1992, is being allowed out of prison unescorted on a daily basis.
The Parole Board of Canada ruled that Derek Wood, 49, is still too high a risk to be released from prison.
Saturday marks the 30th anniversary of the McDonald's murders, but there is no lasting memorial, and there is no longer a restaurant on the former site in Sydney River, N.S.