The statutory release of Toronto sex offender Allen Siu Ming Chow was revoked last week after it emerged that he breached his community release conditions and allegedly committed the same crimes that saw him incarcerated before — drugging a sex trade worker and documenting a disturbing sexual assault.
But the 73-year-old disgraced pharmacist would not be back in prison were it not for an alleged kidnapping in which he was the victim.
After serving two-thirds of a 14-year sentence imposed in 2015 for drugging and sexually assaulting 18 sex workers between 2009 and 2012, Chow lived alone in a condo his wife and daughter set up for him upon release in March 2025, according to a Parole Board of Canada decision obtained by National Post.
Around mid-May, after his family had not heard from him for three days, his daughter visited his condo where she found his vehicle missing, “several phone numbers written down referencing females with assumed meet up dates” and a liquor store bag with a receipt showing a recent transaction.
The Parole Board of Canada issued a “suspension warrant” for Chow on May 20 and Ontario Repeat Offender Parole Enforcement officers located him “in a condo with two individuals who were arrested for kidnapping” a short time after that, although the exact date is unclear.
During a “post-suspension review” by PBC on May 26, after being treated for a broken orbital bone, the board said Chow told police he’d succumbed to the temptation of internet pornography last December and soon “progressed to meeting up with sex trade workers.”
When the male friend of a sex worker Chow had met with figured out his identity and what he’d been convicted of, he and the worman allegedly accused Chow of drugging and sexually assaulting her and tried to extort money from him. Chow said he admitted to recording part of their encounter, but told them her inebriation was a result of street drugs she’d used, not him purposefully drugging her.
“While in their confinement you were deprived of food and beaten. This went on for three days. Your bank accounts were drained and the kidnappers held you until you were found by police,” the board’s decision notes.
Peel Regional Police have also accused the 73-year-old of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman on multiple occasions between December 2025 and this April, recording their encounter without her knowledge or consent. The PBC decision identified the woman as the sex worker who allegedly kidnapped him.
Police believe there are more victims.
While apologetic for letting his family down and “willing to accept consequences,” the board said Chow denies involvement in criminal activity or substance use, claiming the alcohol was for the sex workers he’d meet.
One of the five conditions of Chow’s release included complete abstinence from alcohol, as it was among the chief instigators of his prior offences. He was also required to abide by pornography restrictions, report relationships, stay away from sex workers and have no contact with any of his previous victims.
While he seemed to be abiding by his conditions for the first 14 months of his community release, the PBC said it all “appears to have been a ruse.”
The board said Chow, instead of relying on his support structure, turned to pornography and continued “negative repetitive patterns” that led him to break four of the five conditions of his release.
“At this stage of your rehabilitation, you cannot be trusted (to) follow basic release parameters and your inability to remain compliant with the special conditions imposed, or transparent with supervision, all lead the Board to conclude that your risk can no longer be managed in the community,” the board wrote.
“You have no insight into the results of your actions or behaviour,” PBC concluded, noting that his “lack of commitment, comprehension and transparency is very concerning” and makes his “risk extremely difficult to manage.”
The PBC told National Post that an offender whose statutory release is revoked must serve two-thirds of whatever remains of their original sentence before being granted statutory release again. Chow had served about nine years and four months of his original sentence, leaving him with roughly four and a half years to go, two-thirds of which is roughly 37 months.
As for his new charges, according to Canada’s Corrections and Conditional Release Act, any sentence imposed on an offender on statutory release is usually served consecutively to the unserved portion of the original sentence.
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