MANDEL: Adrian 'Satan' Kinkead, serving life for three murders, denied parole
· Toronto Sun
There will be no parole for the man who viciously killed the Ottey sisters, as well as TTC fare collector Jimmy Trajceski, in the 1995 crime spree that shocked Toronto.
Now 51, Adrian Kinkead was known on the street as Satan, and despite his young years, how he lived up to his nickname with a criminal history of murder, rape, kidnapping, pimping, armed robbery and even dangling a child off a balcony. Despite his improvement during his 30 years in prison, the parole board found that it’s still not safe to allow any kind of release.
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“You have demonstrated a comfort and a willingness to use weapons, instrumental violence, sexual violence, domestic violence, gratuitous violence, and lethal violence in your offending; and you have demonstrated a disregard for the well-being of others,” the panel wrote in its recent decision.
“Your index offences are alarming, given that they appear to have occurred as part of a spree; they occurred while you were on community release; you used weapons and violence; you caused serious harm and death; and you engaged in gratuitous violence.”
Criminal rampage began in early ’90s
Kinkead’s criminal rampage started soon after he arrived in 1991 as a 15-year-old from Jamaica and moved into the Scarborough home of his cousin Rohan Ranger. Four years later, Ranger enlisted Kinkead — out on bail at the time for alleged sex assault — in his diabolical murder plot.
It was Aug. 16, 1995 and Ranger was furious his ex-girlfriend, Marsha Ottey, 21, was fulfilling her dream and packing for Arkansas on her college track scholarship. He had Kinkead abduct her 16-year-old sister Tami to use her to gain entry to the family’s townhouse.
The sisters were then forced to the basement and Ranger arrived to join in the massacre of the beautiful young women — leaving the bloodbath for the girls’ poor mother to discover.
Kinkead’s trail of violence wasn’t over. In September and October of 1995, Kinkead raped two women at gunpoint outside the Victoria Park station. And on Oct. 23, looking for money to make good on his escape from justice, he robbed and stabbed Trajceski to death as the father of two closed up after covering a colleague’s late-night shift at the same station.
The collector was left in a pool of blood, his hands bound behind his back.
Following an international manhunt, Kinkead was arrested in Miami. With station video footage of the robbery and his DNA found under Marsha’s fingernail, he was convicted of Trajceski’s murder and that of the Ottey sisters and sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years.
Fortunately, that quarter-century has come and gone with Kinkead still behind the bars.
Kinkead was trying to get ‘gratuitously violent and sexually explicit story’ published
While Ranger was released on parole in 2024, the parole board found Kinkead continues to pose a serious danger to society. It didn’t help his cause when he was trying to get his manuscript published in 2016 that the board described as a “gratuitously violent and sexually explicit story that was seen to have similarities to your offences.”
He’s since admitted it went too far and said he was trying to edit out the explicit material when it was confiscated.
“It is evident that the greatest concerns in your case relate to general, domestic, or sexual violence,” the board wrote.
Kinkead blamed his criminal history on growing up in Jamaica where violence was normalized and he suffered sexual abuse and severe corporal punishment. In Canada, he says he was the victim of discrimination and an emotionally absent father.
As if any of that would justify the callous murder of three innocent people.
He’s done all the counselling and programming recommended and now demonstrates insight into his “triggers,” the panel wrote, but must still prove himself once he’s moved to minimum security and is eventually allowed escorted temporary absences.
Until then, he remains locked up in Canada.
“A full parole does not present as the next reasonable step in a gradual and structured transition to the community. The Board concludes your release plans are insufficient to manage your assessed significant risk of reoffending.”
The good news is that when Kinkead is eventually released, the cold-blooded killer is subject to a deportation order that will send him back to Jamaica.