The Parole Board of Canada has granted day parole to a retired Summerland RCMP officer who murdered his wife in 2011.

Keith Gregory Wiens, now 70, was approved for day parole at a halfway home for a period of six months, according to a Sept. 23 Parole Board decision.

Wiens shot and killed his common-law partner of seven years, Lynn Kalmring, in 2011.

He was found guilty following a trial by jury and given a life sentence with no chance of parole for 13 years in 2013.

Kalmring's family has long opposed any parole or leave applications by Wiens, including the seven-day and 10-day unescorted temporary absences to a community-based residential facility that were approved in November of 2024.

The most recent decision notes that multiple people spoke at the parole hearing, where they shared

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