An inmate has died at Saskatoon’s Regional Psychiatric Centre.
Corrections officials are not releasing the cause of John Alfred Favel’s death.
But they say the 57-year-old inmate died yesterday.
He had been serving an indeterminate sentence for second degree murder and manslaughter since May 23, 1986.
The murder sentence was handed down by a Red Deer court in 1987 for an offence that dated back to 1981.
He was previously convicted of manslaughter in the killing of an elderly man outside a Regina liquor store in 1984. Court heard the victim was a total stranger to Favel and was fatally assaulted in broad daylight.
As in all cases involving the death of an inmate, the police and the coroner have been notified — and the Correctional Service of Canada will review the circumstances of the incident.