Just record at least 35 years of penitentiary

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Benjamin Hudon-Barbeau, seen here in 2012 while he was enjoying his freedom, can only hope its release before the age of 76 years.

Éric Thibault

Wednesday, 28 February 2018 09:52

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Wednesday, 28 February 2018 23:06

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The double murderer Benjamin Hudon-Barbeau, famous for his escape from prison in a helicopter, have to spend at least the next 35 years behind bars after being handed a sentence record.

And decided by the judge France Charbonneau, Wednesday, at the expense of the one who has been convicted of ordering two murders and two attempted homicide in less than a month, in the fall of 2012, in the Laurentians.

Sentenced automatically to the incarceration in perpetuity, Hudon-Barbeau will not be eligible for parole after serving 25 years in prison like other murderers. In his case, the judge has exceptionally extended the period of 10 years.

“The prospect of rehabilitation in the short -, medium-and even long-term, is virtually non-existent,” argued the judge Charbonneau about this ex-aspirant of the Hells Angels targeted in operation SharQc.

“This is a first in Québec,” stressed the prosecutor, Steve Baribeau, satisfied with the sentence. There are only eight other decisions of its kind in Canada since the conservative government has put an end to the “sentencing discount” against the perpetrators of multiple murders, six years ago.

Close to a psychopath

Hudon-Barbeau has orchestrated a series of settlements of accounts using Ryan Wolfson as a man’s hand. He had taken the latter under his wing when they met in prison, and called it his “Indian” or ” his bitch “.

He “made do his dirty work” by Wolfson, hoping to escape the police, had pleaded Me Baribeau, by speaking of a ” murderous madness “.

The weapons were seized when the police officers of the SPVM arrested the duo at the bar dancers, the Wanda. Wolfson was convicted of murder in 2016.

The judge is also based on the evaluation of a psychologist from the Institut Pinel, Tiziana Costi, who met Hudon-Barbeau on six occasions in prison. She concluded that ” severe behaviour disorders “, related to “several” personality traits “family” of psychopaths.

Hudon-Barbeau was ” a magnificent image of himself “, ” a tendency to lie pathologically and handling “, as well as a ” lack of empathy “.

It is the same prisoner, who compared himself to the famous assassin of france, Jacques Mesrine as he was planning his spectacular escape by helicopter from the prison of Saint-Jerome in march 2013, and for which he has been sentenced to 16 years in prison before Christmas.

Offensive

The judge recalled that during his trial for murder, it struck him “violently with his fists” the glass wall of the box of the accused shouting insults at the prosecutor and investigators of the Sûreté du Québec.

“Thirty-five years ? Why not 50 for that “, he launched to the judge on a sarcastic voice and laughing, on Wednesday.

♦ At the trial, Hudon-Barbeau, who has already been sentenced unjustly for a double murder, and then acquitted by the Court of appeal in January 2012, is said to be the victim of a “sting” of the police. He has also filed a lawsuit of $ 25 million against the State.

His crimes

Attempted murder

September 29, 2012 in Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson

• Victim : a young man, whose identity is under a publication ban, was hit by three bullets
• Mobile : a conflict of a financial nature

Murder and attempted murder

October 10, 2012, at Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson

• Victims : Vincent Pietrantonio has survived a bullet to the abdomen, inside of his residence, but he died before the trial. His bodyguard Frederick Murdock, also achieved by the shooter, has died of his injuries in front of the house.
• Mobile : Hudon-Barbeau had a debt of more than $ 150,000 to the business man Pietrantonio, who insisted on his money back.

Murder

October 18, 2012, on the back of the Manoir Saint-Sauveur

• Victim : Pierre-Paul Fortier, shot several
• Mobile : Fortier, a trafficker of cocaine, has refused to stop obtaining supplies from the Italian mafia and only deal with Hudon-Barbeau.