# Douglas Floyd Lambier — source note
Reviewed and published: 2026-09-21

## Scope and lead
Cross-routed court-news monitoring lead from NewsForBC / Facebook. Social-media allegations, images, residential locations and dates were not treated as evidence. No source graphic reproduced. This is a source-trail-only entry, not a misconduct profile.

## Independently checked sources
1. https://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/windsor-child-killer-serving-life-sentence-granted-temporary-leave-from-prison
   Full body retrieved via web extraction. A separate direct publisher GET independently confirmed article:published_time and schema datePublished = 2026-09-15T10:20:30+00:00. Body says Friday, not an exact hearing date. Reports 60-day unescorted temporary absence; full parole refused; Jennifer Strachan named as board member; William Head Institution; residential counselling/programming. No actual departure confirmed.
2. https://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/windsor-mom-wages-battle-to-keep-child-killer-behind-bars/wcm/09a301ca-9130-4c4d-b1bc-24058f3efe59/amp
   Full body retrieved. Published December 13, updated December 14, 2018. Names Superior Court Justice Terry Patterson at 2006 sentencing. Reports October 3, 2006 life sentence/no parole eligibility for 15 years and guilty plea to second-degree murder.
3. https://federal-organizations.canada.ca/profil.php?OrgID=PBC&lang=en
   Full government roster retrieved. Pacific Regional Division lists Strachan, Jennifer A.; part-time; current/original appointment 2024-08-26; expiry 2027-08-25. Confirms an appointment record, NOT participation in this case, the full panel, or its reasons. Case participation remains attributed to the Windsor Star.

## Legal distinctions
- Historical sentencing judge is not the 2026 conditional-release decision-maker.
- Strachan is a board member, not a judge in this entry.
- Temporary absence is not full parole; refusal of full parole retained prominently.
- Windsor Star says murder-related sexual-assault charge dropped: not a conviction on that charge.
- Brandon Burchell, nine, murdered in 2005; omit graphic details and other children's identities.
- Parole ineligibility is neither sentence expiry nor automatic release.

## Unresolved
Official written board decision and historical sentencing reasons not retrieved. Exact hearing/absence dates, all conditions, complete panel and subsequent status not verified. Do not infer September 18 or any other calendar hearing date from Friday. Do not adopt social-media departure/return dates or special conditions. No current-location assertion. No publication-ban registry clearance. No outreach or request forms submitted.

## Identity / duplicate check
Refreshed remote data/media.json, data/judges.json and existing blog/judges/research text searched before writes for Lambier, Terry Patterson, Terence Patterson and Jennifer Strachan: no matching entry/profile. No robust official Patterson appointment match located; no invented judge ID and no profile created. Existing judge JSON/CSV/index intentionally unchanged. Names are recorded in this source trail and role-specific media fields only.

## Editorial decision
Mainstream-reported temporary absence; full parole refused; written decision pending retrieval. Not a misconduct allegation or finding. No images, residential addresses, sensitive child-abuse details, contact prompts or altered likenesses published. Primary NewsForBC and PBC webroots excluded from all writes.