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 Terminally ill ex-hit man gets parole again |
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Former biker's freedom will be 'very precise, structured and geared to his precarious health condition'
TU THANH HA
July 17, 2008
He killed 43 people and got a chance to redeem himself, but he squandered it and went back to jail under the double stigma of being a snitch and a child molester.
Now terminally ill, Yves (Apache) Trudeau has received parole again, in perhaps the last chapter in the life of one of Canada's most cold-blooded killers. The former Hells Angels hit man is dying from bone-marrow cancer and receiving palliative care.
Citing his poor health but also the fact that he has been a model prisoner who is unlikely to reoffend, the National Parole Board this week granted him parole so he can get treatment outside. In their decision, the two board members, Pierre Cadieux and Odette Gravel-Dunberry, noted that four out of five inmates in cases similar to Mr. Trudeau's did not reoffend.
"According to a 2007 psychiatric assessment, there is no sign suggesting a potential for aggressiveness or acting in a sexually deviant way," the decision said.
Mr. Trudeau, 62, also suffers from renal failure and will, upon release, live in a medical-care facility. The board, an independent tribunal, heard that people who suffer from his type of bone-marrow cancer survive three years on average.
A spokeswoman for the National Parole Board, Carole M?nard, said a number of factors were cited in Mr. Trudeau's application, not just his health. If board members felt that he remained a public threat, they had the option to turn down his request and let him get treatment in jail, she said.
The decision said his release will be "very precise, structured and geared to his precarious health condition."
Mr. Trudeau had gained parole before. After co-operating with the Crown in 1985, he was given a life sentence but was released in 1992 under a new name and led an uneventful life, working as an orderly in a nursing home.
However, after being laid off in 2000, he slid back into cocaine addiction and sexually assaulted a teenage boy, for which he pleaded guilty in 2004.
Since then, the parole board commissioners were told, Mr. Trudeau underwent therapy that reduced his risk of committing another sex offence.
"You have abstained since you were re-incarcerated and your health has sharply declined," the decision said. "You have had a serious reflection and made progress that was noted by all intervenors. They are of the opinion that your risk to re-offend is slim."
A short, wispy man nicknamed the Mad Bumper, Mr. Trudeau was one of Canada's first Hells Angels and a prolific contract killer for various Quebec organized-crime syndicates.
Then he became the first full-patch Hells Angels to turn informant.
In 1985, he was at a detoxification centre and failed to show up at a clubhouse meeting in Lennoxville, Que., sparing him from an internal purge that eliminated his fellow members of the Hells Angels' North Chapter. Considered too rowdy and dissolute, six of the chapter's bikers were murdered and their bodies handcuffed to cinderblocks and tossed into the St. Lawrence River.
In return for his testimony against the Angels, Mr. Trudeau pleaded guilty to 43 counts of manslaughter, which officially means he didn't intentionally kill his 43 victims - 29 of whom died from firearms, 10 from bombs, three from being beaten to death, and one from strangulation.
The police estimate 30 to 35 of his victims were other motorcycle gang members or sympathizers.
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