PlayStation memory card returned to Merritt Killer

(With files from the Canadian Press)

A Federal Court judge has ordered correction officials to return the video game memory card confiscated from an inmate convicted of killing a B-C teenager.

Security officers seized the PlayStation memory card when Patrick Fischer was transferred from maximum security to a medium-security prison in the Fraser Valley in 2018.

But Judge Russel Zinn says Fischer was allowed to own the card and PlayStation for 16 years while in maximum security — and was even given permission to replace the card.

He says there can be no reasonable suggestion that it was a risk in a medium-security institution.

Fischer was convicted of first-degree murder in the 1999 slaying of 16-year-old Darci Drefko of Merritt.