Notorious N.B. killer returned to jail

A man who was convicted for the killing of two Moncton police officers more than 30 years ago is back in jail.

Richard Ambrose had been released on full parole in 2000 and was living in Edmonton, Alberta.

The National Parole Board won't say why he was ordered back into custody.

Will Tonowski, with the behavioral assessment unit of the Edmonton police, tracks high-risk offenders. He said he could only speculate as to why Ambrose's parole was suspended.

"It all depends on what it is the offender did. And is it, would his behaviour that the parole officer would think is negative, would it cause him to re-enter into a crime cycle?"

Ambrose will attend a parole hearing on July 11.

In 1974, he and his accomplice, James Hutchinson, were found guilty of first-degree murder for the killing of police officers Michael O'Leary and Aurele Bourgeois.

They were two of the last offenders in Canada to be sentenced to death. But their sentences were commuted to life in prison two years later when the Trudeau government abolished capital punishment.