Sirhan Sirhan, suspect in the 1968 assassination of former US Attorney General Robert Kennedy, turned 16 this Friday. hearing for parole. This time, according to Associated Press, the prosecutor’s office and two children of the victim did not mind.
According to CNNLos Angeles Court Attorney George Gascon noted that “if someone commits a heinous crime, that person should not be released. However, if that person no longer poses a threat to public safety after serving more than 50 years in prison, then parole may be recommended. ”
In a virtual hearing on Covid-19, Sirhan Sirhan said he did not remember the murder itself, but “must have taken the gun to the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, where the crime was committed. However, in 1989, the killer gave a TV interview, confessing to the crime.
Sirhan, now 77, shot and killed Robert F. Kennedy, a senator from New York, in a hotel kitchen after Kennedy celebrated his victory in the 1968 Democratic presidential race.
The senator will die the next day, less than five years after the assassination of one of his brothers, President John F. Kennedy.
