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"Mom" Butcher guilty of aggravated assault on fellow inmate

Former Hells Angels chief Maurice "Mom" Boucher has pleaded guilty to aggravating a fellow inmate on Tuesday at the St. Jerome Courthouse.

The infamous prisoner admitted his participation in an assault armed with a woodpecker in the company of an accomplice, René Girard, at the expense of Ghislain-André Gaudet, two other murderers held in the same place as him.

The stabbing attack occurred on November 3, 2016 at the Special Handling Unit (SDU) in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Canada's only "super-maximum" security penitentiary.

Symbolic penalty

Boucher has been locked up in the USD since his conviction in the spring of 2002 for ordering the murders of two prison guards.

The ex-biker, who turns 66 in ten days, was initially charged with attempted murder, but the charge was later withdrawn.

He and Girard, 55, each received a two-year prison sentence from Judge Kathlyn Gauthier, as they are already serving life sentences for premeditated murder.

Gaudet, incarcerated for life for having killed a guardian of the former Saint-Vincent-de-Paul penitentiary in Laval during an escape in 1978, had survived several knocks of woodpecker.


Always at risk

Boucher, whom the contract killer Gerald Gallant had the contract to eliminate for $ 250,000 in the year 2000, is still considered a prisoner dangerous and at risk for public safety.

The former leader of the Hells represents a risk of escape each time he must be transported between the penitentiary and a courthouse, testified the officer Bruno Soucy of the Sûreté du Québec before Judge Michel Bellehumeur in October 2016 in that case.

The same police officer added that it is still possible for Boucher to be the target of an attempted murder when he is not incarcerated, prompting the SQ to escort correctional officers during each of the ex in a cellular van.

Murder plot

In June 2018, "Mom" received another symbolic penalty of ten years of jail for plotting to assassinate mafia boss Raynald Desjardins in 2015.

The latter had just been convicted for his role in the murder of the aspiring sponsor Salvatore Montagna.

"You will tell him that ... In my opinion, he (Desjardins) will come here. If he comes, we will be able to kill him, "Boucher told his daughter Alexandra Mongeau who visited him at the USD, while asking him to send the message to the ex-Rocker and leader of the street gangs in Montreal. , Gregory Woolley.

Boucher, who was then filmed and whose words were recorded by microphones and surveillance cameras in the parlor of the penitentiary, was the only convict for this aborted plot since his daughter and Woolley were released from the same charges.

"It was going too far"

The former Hells number one is incarcerated in perpetuity for commissioning the murders of correctional officers Diane Lavigne and Pierre Rondeau in 1997 in Montreal.

Boucher wanted to destabilize the judicial system as the Hells engaged in a bloody war with rivals to gain control of the drug market and increased pressure from the police.

Once considered the most feared criminal biker in the country, he also said that after the prison guards, the Hells would attack police, crown attorneys and judges.

"All Hells Angels knew that Maurice Boucher was behind these attacks. Many thought it was going too far, "the former Hells Angel from Sherbrooke, who had become an informer, told the police officers, Sylvain Boulanger.

Boucher also believed that by ordering such murders to his schoolboys the Rockers, they would never dare to confess to the police by agreeing to become accusers and denouncing their accomplices in court.

But that's what did Stéphane "Godasse" Gagné, the former trafficker who incriminated Boucher even if he considered the latter as his "second father" for taking him under his wing during the biker war .

Gagné admitted to shooting Diane Lavigne after she completed her shift at the Bordeaux prison on June 26, 1997, in addition to having participated in the attack on the van that cost Rondeau the life guard. of the Rivière-des-Prairies prison, on September 8 of the same year.

More than 20 years after his conviction, the witness retributed Gagné obtained his first leave permissions under penitentiary escort last fall.



- With the collaboration of Christian Plouffe