Great White manager freed
The band manager whose pyrotechnics display sparked a nightclub fire that killed 100 people in 2003 was freed from prison Wednesday after serving less than half of his four-year sentence.
Daniel Biechele, 31, walked from the front door of Rhode Island’s minimum security prison in Cranston into his lawyer’s car at midday and was driven away. He did not respond to questions.
His attorney, Thomas Briody, has declined to comment on Biechele’s plans, but prison officials in his home state of Florida have said he would serve his parole there.
Biechele, the former tour manager for the rock band Great White, pleaded guilty in 2006 to 100 counts of involuntary manslaughter for his part in the fire at the Station nightclub in West Warwick, R.I.
The parole board unanimously decided in September to release Biechele early, saying he had shown genuine remorse and had the support of family members of victims.
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