LSD PRISONER'S FATE ON LINE

A West Vancouver man being held at a maximum-security prison in New York
State on a 1971 LSD conviction is expected to find out tomorrow how long he
must remain in prison, says his Vancouver lawyer, Michael Bolton.

Allen Richardson, who fled to B.C. nearly 30 years ago from a New York
prison work camp, was ordered back to jail June 28 by a Rochester judge to
complete the three years and nine months left in the four-year prison
sentence for selling $20 worth of LSD to a undercover police officer.

Richardson, 50, could be eligible for parole in less than six months. He
was as a research laboratory technician at the University of B.C.'s TRIUMF
research lab when he was arrested in November 1998 by RCMP and Immigration
Canada officers.