James Leopold convicted of killing Liverpool woman has parole revoked

It was a short stint on the outside.

James Leroy Leopold, 36, began six months of day parole on June 5, part way into a six-year prison sentence for killing his fiancee Laura Lee Robertson in their Liverpool apartment in 2011.

But the Parole Board of Canada sent him back behind bars in mid-August. His parole ws revoked after a fellow inmate in the half-way house where he was living was found "to be in a state other than normal" and in possession of an envelope containing hydromorphone pills with Leopold's name on it.

In a decision this week, the board noted that Leopold's medication box was searched "and it was discovered that four days worth of medication were unaccounted for or missing."

Leopold, who has been assessed as being "a high risk of violence towards a partner," was also found to be in an intimate relationship with a woman without informing his parole supervisor.

"That is of considerable concern to the Board, taking into account your history of adopting aggressive and violent behaviours inside intimate relationships," the parole board said in its decision.

Leopold was convicted of manslaughter in Robertson's death.

He told police he hit the 47-year-old woman in the throat during a drunken argument, passed out and came around to find her dead.

He then hid her body in a wooded area.

Leopold has multiple convictions for domestic violence, as well as for impaired driving, possessing drugs and threatening people. On one occasion, he tied up a woman with duct tape and threatened to kill himself.