Convicted killer Brian Doyle has been granted more freedom by the National Parole Board.

The decision was handed down yesterday during a virtual hearing from the minimum-security William Head Institution in British Columbia.

Doyle stabbed Catherine Carroll to death in 1991, then allowed her son, Greg Parsons, to go to jail for it.

Parsons did four years before he was cleared, while Doyle confessed to undercover officers and was sentenced to 18 years before parole.

He’s been eligible since 2020, but broke release conditions on his first try. He got a second chance last year and completed three months of day parole without incident.

A two-member panel deliberated for less than a half-hour yesterday before granting more day parole with conditions. That’s despite their concerns over Doyle’s evasive and “superficial answers” during the two-hour hearing.

But there were also positive reports from his parole officer and the man who runs the halfway house where Doyle stayed last time.

Parsons, meanwhile, at times struggled to get through his 6th victim impact statement on what Doyle has inflicted on his family, warning he should be under stricter watch, not less.

He told VOCM News he wasn’t surprised by the decision to release Doyle, adding he fears more for the community where he ends up.