One of two people convicted in the 2014 murder of Loretta Saunders in Halifax has been granted temporary passes from prison to help prepare her for a potential release on parole one day.

Victoria Lea Henneberry has been serving a life sentence with no parole eligibility for 10 years after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in the young Inuk woman's death.

Henneberry and her then boyfriend, Blake Legette, had been subletting a Halifax apartment from Saunders. When Saunders came to collect ren…