Ms. VandenElsen has been imprisoned at Truro’s Nova Institution for Women since June 2005 after being convicted of a number of charges stemming from a three-day standoff with Halifax police in 2004.

Ms. VandenElsen and her husband Larry Finck held police at bay after officers tried to carry out a child apprehension order.

The widely publicized standoff ended bizzarely when the couple left the house carrying a shotgun, a baby and the body of Mr. Finck’s mother.

In a decision released Friday, Justice Charles Haliburton said Ms. VandenElsen had not proved that the National Parole Board, in denying her parole last May, had access to or relied on information not shared with her. Those documents included information on her life history and a police incident report on the standoff.

The Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge dismissed her application, which was heard Dec. 18 in Truro.

Ms. VandenElsen represented herself at the hearing.

After a nine-week trial, Ms. VandenElsen was sentenced to 3½ years in penitentiary and Mr. Finck to 4½ years.

She was convicted of careless use of a shotgun, using a shotgun while committing an indictable offence and threatening to use a shotgun in committing an assault on police.

The couple was also found guilty of abducting the baby in contravention of a child custody order, obstructing a police officer, possessing an unregistered shotgun and possessing a shotgun dangerous to the public peace.

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