British ColumbiaThe Parole Board of Canada says convicted sex offender Randall Hopley remains an “undue risk to society” after the B.C. man left a halfway house in May, on the same day he was released from prison. Randall Hopley was subject of manhunt in November 2023 and convicted for kidnapping in 2008The Canadian Press · Posted: Aug 23, 2025 5:57 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours agoRandall Hopley was sentenced in 2013 for abducting a three-year-old from his home two years prior. He was the subject of a 10-day-long manhunt in November 2023 after he failed to return to his halfway house. (Vancouver Police Department)The Parole Board of Canada says convicted sex offender Randall Hopley remains an “undue risk to society” after the B.C. man left a halfway house in May, on the same day he was released from prison. A board decision this month says Hopley became angry and refused to stay at the community residential facility where he was sent to serve out the remainder of an 18-month sentence failing to attend court and breaching conditions of a long-term supervision order. The decision says Hopley has a pattern of breaching court-imposed conditions including a prohibition on contact with children and from accessing pornography. The board says Hopley objected to staying at the facility he was sent on his statutory release from prison, claiming he’d heard “horror stories” about it. He also claimed his belongings were at a different facility where he knew other residents and got along with staff. WATCH | Hopley rearrested after prison release in May: High-risk sex offender rearrested shortly after release from prison | Hanomansing TonightThe decision says the board found “several concerns” about Hopley’s high-risk to reoffend when he’s “unlawfully at large,” and ordered his statutory release revoked because of the risk he poses to others.The board decision says Hopley’s criminal history dates back to 1985, and he’s been convicted of sexual assault, child abduction and various property offences. The Parole Board’s decision says Hopley will again be eligible for statutory release, which lets federal inmates serve the last third of their sentences in the community under conditions, in September. Hopley completed a six-year prison term for the 2011 abduction of a three-year-old boy in southeastern B.C. and was released in 2018 to a Vancouver halfway house under a 10-year long-term supervision order. Vancouver police issued a public warning in 2018 that he still posed a risk of significant harm to young boys.He was then arrested in January 2023 for allegedly violating conditions of the order.Hopley’s criminal record also includes convictions for assault and sexual crimes, including three sex offences against children.He was the subject of a 10-day manhunt in November 2023, which ended after he was found standing at the locked door of the Vancouver Police Department annex on East Cordova Street near Main Street. With files from the CBC’s Karin Larsen
Parole Board details B.C. sex offender Randall Hopley’s ‘pattern’ of breaching court orders
