Justin Bourque apologizes for Moncton shootings
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Bourque, speaking at the conclusion of a two day sentencing hearing in the Court of Queen s Bench, started by acknowledging the pain the victims families must have felt Monday after they watched his patagonia wetsuits review r3emotionless, rambling statement to police on June 6.
In the three hour, videotaped statement, Bourque appears relaxed as he leans back in a chair and explains that he wanted to encourage people to rise up against the soldiers that defend federal institutions and protect the rich from the poor.
He calmly muses about his strict Catholic upbringing, climate change, evolution, social engineering, class warfare, tyrants, something called the black curtain and threats posed by the Russians and the Chinese.
I know this is going to sound pretty messed up, but I felt pretty accomplished, he told police.
The 24 year old said his original plan was to set fire to several Moncton gas stations to harm the oil industry, but he ditched that idea because of problems with his bicycle.
On Tuesday, Bourque said he had changed his mind about what he had said and done.
Everything I said was from hatred, he said, referring to the police statement. If you had asked me about this two days (after the shootings), there was nothing to be proud of. I took the easy way out.
Before he was led out of the courtroom, Bourque offered an apology.
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An agreed statement of facts previously filed with the court says Bourpatagonia flagship store venturaque s actions were both planned and deliberate when he used a Poly Technologies M305, 308 calibre semi automatic rifle to kill constables Dave Ross, 32, Fabrice Gevaudan, 45, and Douglas Larche, 40. Constables Eric Dubois and Darlene Goguen were also wounded.
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In August, Bourque pleaded guilty to three counts of first degree murder and two counts of attempted murpatagonia lake directions3der.
Crown attorney Cameron Gunn told Judge David Smith that Bopatagonia outlet store 607urque had admitted to one of the most heinous crimes in Canadian history and has shown no remorse.
At the very least, Bourque faces a mandatory life sentence with no parole eligibility for 25 years for the first degree murder charges.
However, Gunn said the judge should use a 2011 amendment to the Criminal Code that allows judges to extend parole inelpatagonia discount code kerbal spaceigibility in cases of multiple murders. In Bourque s case, Smith could decide that the 25 year ineligibility period for each of the three murder convictions should be imposed consecutively, which means Bourque wouldn t be allowed to apply for parole until he was 99 years old.
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My question,patagonia lake directions1 chief justice, is: whose life do we devalue here? Gunn said, adding that the sentences for the attempted murder charges should be served concurrently.
Defence lawyer David Lutz is asking for two consecutive parole ineligibility periods, which would amount to 50 years.
In either case, Bourque is facing the harshest sentence in Canada since the last executions in 1962.
The amended Criminal Code provision cited by Gunn has been used only once before. In September 2013, a judge in Edmonton sentenced an armoured car guard to life in prison with no chance at parole for 40 years for gunning down four of his colleagues during a robbery in June 2012.
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Smith said he will sentence Bourque on Friday.
Legal scholars have suggested it s unlikely Bourque will receive the maximum, 75 year sentence given that his age, lack of criminal record and guilty pleas should be considered mitigating factors. As well, they say such a sentence could subjected to a constitutional challenge citing cruel and unusual punishment.
