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Saturday 20 November 2010

Canada, Life as a Hells Angel: an exclusive pleasure club

Bikers Of America, Know Your Rights!: Canada, Life as a Hells Angel: an exclusive pleasure club: "The public was given a rare glimpse into the insular and exclusive world of the notorious Hells Angels biker gang during court proceedings on Tuesday.
The revelations, including tales of drugs, international travel and violence, were made as an undercover police informant appeared in front of a judge. The identity of the informant, who was a patch member of the gang for seven years, cannot be revealed.
The court case is in connection to a police raid on the downtown Toronto Hells Angels back in April of 2007. Following the raid, five men were charged with guns and drug offences."


Saturday 6 November 2010

Benjamin Hudon-Barbeau, 34, sentenced to 12 years for the attempted murder of two men who died after being shot at a downtown nightclub.

courtroom erupted into chaotic shouting yesterday after a man was sentenced to 12 years for the attempted murder of two men who died after being shot at a downtown nightclub.

"There is no justice, as you can see," Benjamin Hudon-Barbeau, 34, shouted toward his relatives as Superior Court Justice Jean-Guy Boilard sentenced him.

While his mother blurted several times: "He's innocent!" Hudon-Barbeau continued his rant from the prisoner's dock, asking someone seated in the audience if they will ever be able to look themselves in the mirror again.

Courthouse guards led Hudon-Barbeau away as he continued to shout, and his relatives argued with other people in the courtroom. Security was tight and most of the people who attended the hearing were searched before they could enter.

Hours earlier, Boilard convicted Hudon-Barbeau, an alleged associate of the Hells Angels, of attempted murder in a case where the victims were killed. Jean-Patrick Fleury, 28, and Vladimir Nicolas, 31, were found dead on a back stairway outside the Upperclub on St. Laurent Blvd. in October 2006. Both men had been shot. The Crown's theory during the trial is they were shot by Hudon-Barbeau after an argument in the club's VIP section, and collapsed on the stairway as they tried to escape.

Prosecutor Randall Richmond presented two witnesses who saw Hudon-Barbeau holding a firearm after the men were shot. But the credibility of one witness was hotly debated during the trial. Also, a ballistics expert testified that two different calibres of bullets were used in the shooting, raising the possibility another gunman was involved. The homicide investigation was also not helped by the fact someone managed to clean up the scene before Montreal police major crimes investigators arrived. Hudon-Barbeau was initially charged with second-degree murder when he was arrested in 2007. The charges were downgraded to manslaughter before the trial began.

Boilard determined there was at least enough evidence to prove Hudon-Barbeau fired a gun in the direction of both men before they died.

Fleury and Nicolas had ties to a street gang, but organized crime affiliations played little or no role in the trial.

Boilard sided with Richmond's recommendation on sentencing. Defence lawyer Pierre Poupart had asked for less than 10 years. With time served factored in, Hudon-Barbeau has a little more than five years left on his sentence.

His emotional mother said outside the courtroom that his family plans to appeal the conviction.

"Benjamin always did well to others. He's not an angel but he did not kill anyone," she said.



Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/years+deaths/3786966/story.html#ixzz14Y5izP1w


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