Edmundston: life in prison for a man convicted of killing his mother

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Jacob Cassidy

Wednesday, march 7, 2018 10:31

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Rock Laforest, who has pleaded guilty to second degree murder of his mother, has been sentenced to a term of incarceration of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole before 10 years, on Wednesday morning, in Edmundston, New Brunswick.

The judge Lucie Lavigne has accepted the joint proposal presented by the lawyers on Tuesday. This is the minimum penalty that can be imposed for second-degree murder. The two and a half years that the killer had already spent behind bars will not be deducted from the sentence.

Rock Laforest has also pleaded guilty to a charge of attempted murder against her father, for which he received a total sentence of 10 years in prison which will be served at the same time as the sentence for murder.

In the night of 17 to 18 July 2015, Rock Laforest has attacked his father with an axe and a knife. When Jacques Laforest managed to escape him, the young man, who was then 21 years old, took his mother in him by a dozen strokes of the axe behind the head.