A Hells Angels hitman who killed a man in Nova Scotia can’t fathom why the Parole Board of Canada takes his victim’s family’s word over his when it comes to granting him freedom.

Dean Daniel Kelsie is serving a life sentence for the October 2000 shooting death of Sean Simmons in the lobby of a Dartmouth, N.S., apartment building. The court heard Simmons was killed for having had an affair with the wife of a member of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang.

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In a new appeal, Kelsie, who is in his early 50s, argued unsuccessfully against the decision this past spring to yank his day parole.

“You submit that the board’s reasons demonstrate that the victims directly influenced the board’s decision, and you wonder about the actual impact of their presence and more importantly, t

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