A Montreal man who fired a revolver next to his partner to force her to have an abortion and then rented the gun to a woman who was found dead shortly afterwards has just been found guilty on all charges.
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“[La victime] expressed that she wanted to keep the child, he firmly rejected the idea, he already had three and didn’t want any more […]. He aimed the gun […] and he shot,” judge Dennis Galiatsatos summarized this Wednesday in the Montreal courthouse.
Sitting in the dock, Albano Pierre listened with his head bowed to the judge’s final verdict: guilty of, among other things, armed assault, discharge of a firearm, arms trafficking, kidnapping and threats. .
At the beginning of 2021, the defendant committed a series of crimes against a partner, at the time by renting a firearm for $800 to a woman who wanted to defend herself against a violent ex-spouse.
Suspicious death
The first event concerns the shooting to encourage his partner to have an abortion. According to the woman, Pierre “always carried the gun in his Louis Vuitton bag, he never parted with it, he carried it all the time.”
“Knowing the risk he was taking by firing his weapon recklessly, he still chose to shoot to intimidate the complainant,” the judge noted.
However, a few weeks after the threats, Pierre agreed to part with the house and rent it to Marly Edouard, an acquaintance.
“Pierre was scared since the loan [Mme Edouard] “Stopped responding to his calls or text messages,” the ruling states.
Concerned, Pierre went to the woman’s house in Laval to find the police there.
“The latter was found dead under suspicious circumstances,” the judge said. The gun was next to the body.”
The plaintiff believed
Then, a month later, Pierre attacked his then-partner again and forced her to let him search her cell phone for so-called infidelities. The woman then called the police to report both this incident and the previous two.
During the trial, Pierre chose to remain silent and had his lawyer, Mr. Julien Montpetit, attack the credibility of the complainant, but to no avail. Because despite certain inconsistencies and honest mistakes, it remained reliable and sincere.
So much so that Pierre was found guilty across the board. He was also once accused of harassment, but during the trial Jeanne Gagné and Sylvie Dulude of the Crown acknowledged that the accusation was unnecessary.
Pierre, who faces a lengthy prison sentence, will soon be back in court to make sentencing arguments.
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