Accomplice Patrick Randall in killing of Pam Smart's husband granted parole
An accomplice who was aged 16 when he held a knife to Pamela Smart's husband's throat before a friend shot him dead has been granted parole after 25 years.
Patrick Randall was 16 in May 1990 when he held a knife to Gregory Smart's throat as his friend Billy Flynn, shot him in the head.
Flynn was Pamela Smart's then-16-year-old lover and shot her husband dead at her request.
Patrick Randall (pictured) was 16 in May 1990 when he held a knife to Gregory Smart's throat as Billy Flynn, who was Pamela Smart's then-16-year-old lover, shot him in the head
Dean Smart, brother of Gregory Smart, speaks to Patrick Randall, left, with his attorney Mark Stevens during Randall's parole hearing on Thursday
Randall, 17, testifies in Rockingham County Superior Court in Exeter, N.H in 1991
Flynn was paroled last month; Smart is serving life without parole after being convicted of plotting the murder.
Now 41, Randall won parole Thursday at his first hearing - he won't be released until after June 4.
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ShareSmart was media coordinator at Winnacunnet High School in Hampton, where both boys were students, when she first seduced Flynn in the months before her husband was killed.
Flynn testified that she told him she needed her husband killed because she feared she would lose everything if they divorced.
Pamela Smart (seen in 1991) was convicted of conspiring with her teen lover, William 'Billy' Flynn, to kill her 24-year-old husband, Gregory Smart. Smart is serving a life without parole sentence
In this 1991 file photo, Flynn testifies on his 17th birthday how he shot Gregory Smart in the head
He said she threatened to break up with him if he did not kill Gregg Smart.
On May 1, 1990, Randall and Flynn entered the Smarts' Derry condominium and forced Gregg Smart to his knees in the foyer.
As Randall held a knife to the man's throat, Flynn fired a hollow-point bullet into his head.
The trial was a media circus and one of the first high-profile cases about a sexual affair between a school staff member and student.
It inspired the Joyce Maynard novel 'To Die For,' which in turn was made into a movie starring Nicole Kidman.
Murdered: Smart's husband, Gregory Smart (seen on their wedding day), was shot in the head in May 1990
Randall and Flynn pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and after plea bargains eventually got sentences of 28 years to life.
In March 2009, a judge knocked three years off Randall's sentence over the objection of prosecutors who noted that he was involved in a jailhouse assault 15 years before.
The judge said Randall's record otherwise had been spotless and that he had shown extreme remorse.
Two other teenagers served prison sentences and have been released.
Pamela Smart, who was 22 when her husband was killed, was convicted of being an accomplice to first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole.
She has admitted seducing the boy but said she didn't plan her husband's murder.
She was moved to a women's prison in New York state for unspecified security reasons.
Smart has consistently lobbied for her release, maintaining after Flynn was granted parole that if the person who pulled the trigger could be freed, she deserves the same chance.
The case inspired the 1995 movie 'To Die For.' In the film, Nicole Kidman plays a woman named Suzanne Stone, who becomes involved in a relationship with a teen, played by Joaquin Phoenix
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