JULIA Yvonne Elliott, the Barbadian woman who was accused of murdering her Canadian lover more than 15 years ago, is back in Barbados after spending five years in prison in Canada.
WEEKEND NATION investigations reveal that Elliott quietly returned to Barbados on Wednesday.
Reports indicate that she appeared before a Parole Board last month, at the Grand Valley Correction Institute For Women, where she was serving her sentence and a decision was made to release her two years early.
Elliott, who operated a massage parlour here has left behind a historical legal trial in Canada.
Now 48, she first went on trial in 1998 for murdering 64 year-old Larence Foster, in 1995. But the presiding judge Paul Cosgrove freed her after four years on remand and accused the prosecution and police of committing 150 constitutional violations against her.
She returned to Barbados a free woman but the Canadian authorities refused to give up and in 2003 she was arrested on an Interpol warrant while living in Costa Rica and deported to Canada. This time around she threw in the towel and pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
Last year, the judge who freed her, resigned from the bench, thereby avoiding being the first judge in that country to be fired. He was accused by the Canadian Judicial Council of abusing his powers during Elliott’s trial.
Then earlier this year, her attorney Kevin Murphy was suspended from practising law for six months after admitting to verbally abusing witnesses and making unfounded accusations against opposing lawyers during the notorious trial.
Elliott was said to have brutally killed Foster and dismembered his body. The body parts were found floating in a river after a massive search.