'Internet Black Widow' Melissa Shepard must wait to answer to breach of release charge
Susan Bradley | CBC News | Posted: June 22, 2016 10:16 AM | Last Updated: June 22, 2016
Shepard alleged to have accessed computer at Halifax library
An 80-year-old woman known as the Internet Black Widow will return to Halifax provincial court on July 4 after a hearing scheduled for Wednesday into allegations she broke a court order was postponed.
Melissa Ann Shepard was supposed to answer to a charge that she used a computer at the Halifax Central Library in April, in violation of a court-ordered condition imposed on her following her release from prison in March.
However, the matter has now been postponed until next month.
Police allege a community response officer saw her using the internet on a computer. The officer arrested her and took her to the police station.
She is not allowed to use a computer, or be on-line, under terms imposed when she left Nova Institution for Women in Truro.
She completed her full sentence there for poisoning her most recent husband on their honeymoon.
Shepard gained notoriety for killing and poisoning men who were her intimate partners and has a history of offences dating back to the early 1990s.
The CBC's Blair Rhodes live blogged from court.