Pamela Smart's teenage lover is granted parole 25 years after she encouraged him to kill her husband

[flowers]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2991685/Pamela-Smart-s-teenage-lover-granted-parole-25-years-encouraged-kill-husband.html

    William 'Billy' Flynn was granted parole by a three-person board in New Hampshire on Thursday - his 41st birthday
    He is being held in a prison in Maine so took part in the hearing by phone
    He will not be freed before June 4 but will then be reunited with his wife Kelly, whom he married from behind bars in 2006
    Flynn was seduced by teacher Pamela Smart, then 22, and shot dead her husband Gregg Smart, 24, in 1990
    At Pamela Smart's trial, Flynn said she had threatened to break up with him if he didn't kill her husband, but she denies knowing about the murder
    Smart is serving life in prison without the possibility of parole
    The case inspired the 1995 movie 'To Die For' starring Nicole Kidman and Joaquin Phoenix

[mountaineer]

I guess justice was served, more or less (why not keep him the minimum 28 years to which he was sentenced?).  Pamela Smart is a real piece of work, though.

CONCORD, N.H. (CBS/AP) — A spokeswoman for Pamela Smart says Smart is serving the life sentence that should have been given to her teen lover who killed her husband in 1990.

Triggerman William Flynn, now 41, was awarded parole Thursday.

Afterward, Smart’s spokesperson, Eleanor Pam, said Flynn victimized Smart, not the other way around.

Pam says Flynn and three co-conspirators lied when they portrayed Pamela Smart as the architect of the murder plot.

Flynn testified at Smart’s trial that she seduced him when he was a 15-year-old student at the school where she was a media adviser, then threatened to shun him if he didn’t kill Gregg Smart.

Flynn pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to 28 years to life in prison. Pamela Smart was convicted of being an accomplice to murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Here is Pan’s full statement:

Once again, Bill Flynn has cynically used a winning strategy to get himself a better deal. He paints himself as Pamela Smart’s victim and blames her for acts he himself committed. Successfully playing the innocent virgin, he weeps into his tissues every chance he gets.

Teenager Flynn was a murderer, a liar and a thief. He was well known to the police and an experienced criminal. He was never Smart’s victim but she has certainly been his. For two and a half decades she has been paying for his crimes while and and his gangster co-conspirators have reaped the benefits of their perjurious testimony.

The New Hampshire parole board has today decided to send this self-confessed killer home to his wife while Pamela Smart continues to serve the sentence that should be his–one that ends in 99/99/9999.

WBZ