DAD WHO KILLED GIRL'S DRUG-DEALING BOYFRIEND SAYS FAMILY'S LIVES
RUINED

Prince Albert - A father who killed his 16-year-old drug-addicted
daughter's boyfriend says he has nightmares about that fateful day
four years ago.

In an interview at the Saskatchewan penitentiary, Kim Walker told the
CTV News show The Verdict that he doesn't remember much the day he
fired 10 shots at James Hayward, hitting him five times.

Walker was convicted last fall of second-degree murder for the 2003
shooting of Hayward and received a mandatory life sentence with no
chance of parole for 10 years. He is appealing.

A jury heard how Walker's teenage daughter, Jadah, was living with
Hayward in Yorkton in the months before the attack and using morphine
with him.

"It was a culmination of so many different factors - the attempts we
took, the steps we took to get her out of the drug house, our pleas to
police were ignored,'' said Walker.

"I knew she would die ... she was being shot up with morphine and I
know how deadly it is - all it would do is take a little overdose.''

Speaking slowly, his eyes welling with tears, Walker said he and his
wife, Elizabeth, didn't realize at first that Jadah was on drugs.
However, he said it wasn't long before they were constantly arguing
with her.

"She was calling us by our first names. When the police came they
said, 'Does she always treat you like this?' and we said, 'no, not
always.' The police said we should practise tough love.''

However, he said Jadah left the house, going to a place "Hayward had
set up.''

Walker and his wife would pick her up for lunch a few times a week and
try to convince her to come home.

CTV said relatives of Hayward declined to be interviewed for the
program.