MONTREAL – According to reports, authorities in Quebec have captured a convicted killer who escaped from police custody during a hospital visit.
Jean Pierre Duclos was apprehended by RCMP officers in Magog Tuesday evening.
The prisoner slipped away in May, while being escorted to a hospital in Verdun for an unspecified medical condition.
Duclos, who is 56, had been serving a life sentence since 1992 for a first-degree murder committed the previous year.
He killed 33-year-old Danielle Andre and left her body outside a Laval warehouse. Duclos admitted that Andre had been beaten and shot through the heart because she had refused to have sex with him.
It was later revealed that Laval police failed to act after an informant told officers that Duclos had murdered Andre.
Several officers were charged and Andre’s family tried to take the police department to court for its mishandling of the case.
– With files from The Canadian Press
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