The Bay St. George Status of Women’s council is holding a rally next week after learning that a man who brutally beat a woman to death in 2003 could be coming back to Stephenville.

Robert Hilroy Legge murdered Ann Maria Lucas after breaking into her Alabama Terrace apartment and striking her repeatedly with a heavy metal bar. He was on probation for assaulting her at the time.

Legge pleaded guilty to second degree murder and Janice Kennedy, the Executive Director of the Bay St. George Status of Women’s Council says they were recently tipped off that he’s out of prison and wants to return to Stephenville.

Kennedy told VOCM Morning Show co-host Fred Hutton that’s raised a great deal of concern in the community.

She says he brutally murdered an Indigenous woman in Stephenville, and they have to speak out. She says he doesn’t have the right to return to the community “after 16 short years.”

The rally is planned in Stephenville for October 4th at 6:00 p.m.