One of the authors of the double murder on the boulevard Saint-Joseph, which occurred 26 years ago dies in detention

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Monday, 16 October 2017 21:32

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MONTREAL | The prison authorities have announced at the end of the week the death of Paul Bedard, an individual who was serving a sentence of life imprisonment in respect of a case of double murder that occurred 26 years ago.

Bedard died at the age of 53 years last Thursday in the custody of the correctional Service of Canada to the hospital Cité-de-la-Santé in Laval. He was an inmate of the Institution Archambault, Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines.

For reasons of protection of privacy, the correctional Service of Canada has not clarified the cause of her death, nor provided reasons for Paul Bedard found himself in prison there are more than a quarter of a century, limiting itself to say that he had been serving his sentence since December 18, 1992, and that his relatives were informed of his death.

Bédard had been involved in what were called at the time “the double murder on the boulevard Saint-Joseph”.

On July 22, 1991, two men had been found dead their throats slit in a housing of the boulevard Saint-Joseph Is a little to the west of Pie-IX. The victims were the owner of the apartment building where the killings took place as well as a drug dealer.

After the discovery of the body, the Montreal police had launched a search notice against Paul Shaker, the tenant of the home where the murders had taken place. The man already had a heavy criminal past.

Shaker was arrested two days later in Danville, in the eastern Townships, in the company of an accomplice, Paul Bedard. It turned out later that Bédard played a role in the murders of the boulevard Saint-Joseph.

During their run, the two individuals had kidnapped and stolen the family members after you have tied up in their cottage in the township of Shipton.

Shaker, who was denied twice by the parole board in recent years, is still incarcerated, under the authority of the correctional Service of Canada.