Parole granted for driver in deadly 1981 Brink’s heist
Posted Apr 17, 2019 05:33:19 PM.
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ALBANY, N.Y. — Former radical activist Judith Clark has been granted parole after serving more than 37 years behind bars for her role as getaway driver in a deadly 1981 Brink’s armoured truck robbery in New York.
Clark’s spokesman says her parole was approved Wednesday.
Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo praised Clark’s behaviour as a model prisoner when he commuted her 75-years-to-life sentence in 2016 to make her eligible for parole. The 69-year-old inmate has trained service dogs, founded an AIDS education program and counselled mothers behind bars.
Clark had a parole hearing April 3 and presented support statements from more than 2,000 people. But some law enforcement officials and families of victims opposed her release. The $1.6 million Brink’s heist in suburban New York led to the shooting deaths of two police officers and a security guard.
The parole board first denied Clark’s release in 2017, saying she was “still a symbol of violent terroristic crime.”
The Associated Press
