Warning: this story contains details of violence and sexual assault
One of the two men convicted of killing Langford teenager Kimberly Proctor in 2010 has again been denied parole.
Turning down his application for full parole, the Parole Board of Canada said 31-year-old Kruse Wellwood still presents an “undue risk” to society if released.
Echoing a decision made only a few months earlier in September, when Wellwood’s application for day parole was refused, the parole board cited a number of concerns, including a relationship with an 18-year-old woman.
According to the board’s decision in September, it was discovered in May that for around eight months, Wellwood had been in correspondence with someone in the community who had told him they were a 17-year-old girl – information he had not shared with his case management team.
At that time, he was told to have no further contact with the individual.
Later in 2025, according to the board’s December decision, it was discovered Wellwood was speaking regularly by telephone with an 18-year-old woman. Wellwood described the relationship as romantic and claimed the teenager’s mother was supportive of the pair.
Wellwood’s case management team believes the teenager is the same person they advised him to have no further contact with in May.
“It appears you withheld information about this relationship to conceal the fact you had been communicating with the same person,” notes the report. “Your CMT (case management team) is concerned you continue to interact with young females, and they have concerns regarding this relationship as it parallels your offence cycle.”
In addition to the concerning relationship, the parole board’s report also notes that over a hundred drawings of a “sexually deviant nature” were seized from Wellwood’s cell in 2023, depicting the sexual abuse and torture of women, pregnant women and children.
In a letter to the board, Wellwood said the drawings were a way to “process subconscious images.”
However, the board says Wellwood lacks understanding of the risk associated with deviant sexual fantasy and arousal.
“Particularly given your explanation that the graphic and violent nature of the art you produced provided you with ‘freedom’, ‘relaxation’ and ‘relief,’” says the decision.
This lack of insight into a core risk factor significantly heightens Wellwood’s risk, noted the board, and confirms these issues remain unaddressed.
The board also says Wellwood was an instigator in an assault on another inmate in July last year. Plus, in August, he was observed “in distress, crying and requesting help.”
“You also smashed your body and head onto a metal door and continued screaming while running away from staff,” the decision says.
Wellwood’s most recent psychological risk assessment in July – also cited in the September decision – says his risk for sexual and general violence is high.
“The psychologist reported your risk cannot be managed effectively in the community and a period of sustained stability, improved insight and further treatment of sexually deviant interests is needed,” the decision says.
Two victim impact statements were also presented to the board at the end of the hearing.
“These statements reflect the ongoing trauma and harm you inflicted on the victim’s family, as well as the profound grief and loss that remain unresolved,” says the board’s decision. “The board finds these statements to be a compelling reminder of the lasting and devastating impact of your actions.”
Wellwood was 16 when he and 17-year-old Cameron Moffat lured 18-year-old Proctor to his home, where they sexually assaulted and brutalized her over a period of several hours.
Proctor was strangled and suffocated until she died – her badly burned body found the next day beneath a bridge.
Both Wellwood and Moffat pleaded guilty in 2011 and were given life sentences for first-degree murder and indignity to a dead body. Their eligibility for parole was set at 10 years.
Moffat was denied day parole in November 2024 and then denied full parole in May last year due to a high risk of violent reoffending.
Prior to both his applications last year, Wellwood had unsuccessfully applied for day parole in 2022. An appeal against the decision was also denied in 2023.