By Troy Gillard (Twitter: @Troy_Gillard)

Pre-sentence report delayed for former Bowden Institution worker who helped inmate escape

Apr 17, 2018 | 5:04 PM

The case for a former Correctional Service Canada worker who admitted to helping an inmate escape from the Bowden Institution has been put over to August.

In January, Peter Edgar pleaded guilty in Red Deer provincial court to permitting or assisting escape.

He was charged following the 2015 escape of Sylvain Martin from Bowden Institution.

Martin was serving a 10-year sentence for fraud when he fled from the prison’s minimum-security wing. He made his way to Calgary and then on to Quebec, where he was taken into custody.

Following his arrest, Martin told police that while he was an inmate he developed a relationship with Edgar, who is 61. At the time, Edgar was working as a production supervisor with a Correctional Service Canada program that provides incarcerated offenders with job-skills training.

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A pre-sentence report was to be presented in Red Deer provincial court last week. Instead it will be spoken to on August 2.