SAINTE ANNE DES PLAINES - One of the worst killers in Canadian history saw his parole hearing postponed Tuesday morning because his plan for release was incomplete.

Yves Trudeau, 61, a former Hells Angel who admitted to committing or at least playing a role in 43 murders made an unexpectedly brief appearance before the National Parole Board. The hearing was held inside the Archambault Institution, a medium-security penitentiary in the lower Laurentians.

The once-murderous biker gang member appeared frail as prison guards brought him to the hearing room in a wheelchair. With his thin frame, greying hair and weak voice it is difficult to imagine Trudeau as the man once known by his Hells Angels nickname, Apache, and feared even by members of his own gang.



Parole commissioner Michel Pallascio presided over the hearing which ended prematurely because the release plan Trudeau wanted to propose to the board was incomplete. Pallascio said a new hearing will be rescheduled within 60 days. A Gazette reporter was asked to leave the hearing room when elements of Trudeau's release plan were discussed.

His security as a former high-profile police informant is apparently still a concern for the provincial government as two Surete du Quebec officers attended the hearing.

In 1985, Trudeau decided to become a police informant after he learned he was supposed to have been killed along with five Hells Angels who were shot to death by fellow gang members in Lennoxville. Trudeau was in a detox centre in Oka in March 1985 and couldn't attend when members of the Hells Angel's Laval chapter were summoned to the Eastern Townships for what they were told was a meeting. Instead, they were ambushed by members of other Hells Angels chapters. The slaughter, known now as the Lennoxville Purge, was carried out because the Laval chapter was unruly and used cocaine the gang intended to sell for profit.

Trudeau was given a controversial informant contract that allowed him to plead guilty to 43 counts of manslaughter in 1986. He was sentenced to life but was eligible for parole seven years later. In exchange he supplied the police with information on several organized crime figures including members of the Hells Angel.

Trudeau was provided with a new identity when he was granted parole in 1994. He lived under the name Denis Cote and led a secret life for years until he was arrested in March 2004 for sexually assaulting a young boy. Trudeau pleaded guilty to the offence four months later and was sentenced to a 4-year prison term. While his is eligible for parole Trudeau is still serving a life sentence and can held behind bars until the National Parole Board determines he is ready.

i read about this guy,he is a stone cold killer

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