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The next major development in the White case was whether or not Michael White would get bail. The Crown wanted White to remain behind bars; Larry Anderson wanted his man out.


The bail hearing drew a lot of media attention. In spite of the publication and broadcast ban on evidence, reporters got to see where the Crown was coming from.


Justice Scott Brooker, brought in from Calgary, ruled in White's favour.


Michael White's step-father, Larry Forbes, put up $10,000 cash and flew out from Ontario to spring White.


Around 6:00 p.m. on a fall day in 2005, White was released from the Remand Centre.


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A group of reporters greeted both White and his step-father, with one journalist – married to an EPS officer – asking, "Did you do it, Mike?"


Forbes said he told his step-son to "Keep going straight ahead" and "Keep your mouth shut." Neither White nor Forbes wanted to be interviewed by reporters.


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Pastor Robert Scott, who regularly visited prisoners at the Remand Centre, called me about an interesting rumour he heard from a guard at the jail – that I had put up the ten thousand dollars bail money.


That was untrue. Like a reporter is going to park a week's salary to get somebody out on bail.


After leaving his unit at the Remand Centre to a round of applause from the cons (they do that for anyone who leaves), Michael White had his first whiff of freedom in months.


White and Forbes drove to a motel where a police officer gave them the keys to 227 Warwick Crescent, Michael White's home.


Before they made it to Castle Downs, they also picked up something Remand prisoners rarely get a whiff of – Kentucky Fried Chicken.



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