Kennedy killer refused parole

PAROLE board members have refused to free Robert F Kennedy’s convicted assassin after ruling that he had not shown enough remorse and did not understand the severity of a crime that was mourned by a nation four decades ago.

Sirhan, a Palestinian Christian from Jordan who is now 66, spoke at length and expressed sorrow, but said he did not remember shooting Kennedy or five other victims on June 5, 1968, in the crowded kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, where Kennedy stood moments after claiming victory in the California presidential primary.

“Every day of my life, I have great remorse and deep regret,” he told a panel of two parole board commissioners at Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga, California.