Nine years in prison after being killed for a debt of 40 $

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Michael Nguyen

Monday, 2 October 2017 22:41

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A seller of a drug that has killed another for a debt of 40 $ has been sentenced to nine years in penitentiary, but the sentence would have been more severe had he not been beaten by guards in prison, said the judge.

“He is breaking three teeth [by officials], because it does not obey quickly enough to instructions, but her complaint was not successful, because there are no videos because of an error of a member of the response team ; the court must take account in its award,” quipped the judge, Stephen Hamilton, Monday, at the palais de justice of Montreal.

Without this incident occurred in December 2015, the “appropriate sentence” for Roody Louis would be able to mount up to 12 years of imprisonment, said the magistrate, recalling that the accused had committed a “quasi-murder” in February 2014.

Debt drug

At the time, the accused 35-year-old was selling drugs in the city centre of Montreal, just as his victim Jaime Bustillo, 48 years old.

“It is far from the literary circle and a tea room, had told Me Marie-Josée Thériault, for the prosecution, during the trial. But despite this medium-hard, a man lost his life. “

Shortly before the tragedy, the two men who knew each other had argued about an alleged debt of $ 40 that Louis wanted to recover. In the evening fateful, then, that Mr. Bustillo was walking in the street with his spouse, Louis then appeared from nowhere.

“[The defendant] stabbed the victim once, near the heart, ” said the magistrate.

Breaches

During the trial, Louis vowed that the police had caught the wrong person as it would have been “elsewhere” at the time of the events. The jury had not believed, but rather that of the guilty of first degree murder, the verdict was one of manslaughter.

“The victim has not provoked the accused, who was not drunk, recalled the judge. Mr. Louis did not have psychiatric disorders. And after, he fled rather than give aid to the victim. “

The Crown called 12 years of incarceration for Louis, because among other things, its legal background. Even in prison, the defendant continued to misbehave, as he has accumulated 179 breaches of discipline.

On his side, Me Alexandra Longueville, for the defence, suggested that six or seven years in the penitentiary.

Given the remand, it remains to be Louis for a little over three and a half years to serve before being released.