Image: Canadian Press / The Parole Board of Canada has deemed 59-year-old Randall Hopley an "undue risk to society" after escaping only hours since he was released from Mission Institution in May.

By Alyssa Conti

SEX OFFENDER

High-risk sex offender is still ‘undue risk to society’ after re-arrest in May: Parole Board

Aug 23, 2025 | 12:05 PM

VANCOUVER — The Parole Board of Canada has deemed convicted sex offender Randall Hopley as an “undue risk to society” for being re-arrested only hours after his release from Mission Institution in May.

A board decision this month says Hopley became angry and refused to stay at the halfway house he was sent to in Vancouver for the remainder of an 18-month sentence.

The decision adds that Hopley has a pattern of breaching court-imposed conditions, including a prohibition on contact with children and accessing pornography.

The 59-year-old claimed he’d heard “horror stories” about it and that his belongings were at a different facility where he knew other residents and got along with staff.

There were “several concerns” about Hopley’s high risk of reoffending every time he’s unlawfully at large, and the board ordered his statutory release revoked for the continued risk to society.

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Court documents show Hopley had been convicted of three sexual offences when he was 16 and 17, as well as a fourth conviction in 1985, when he was 19. He has also been found guilty of various property offences.

He will be eligible for statutory release again in September, as per federal regulations that state the automatic release of an inmate back to the community under certain conditions after they’ve served two-thirds of their sentence.