CAMPBELLTON, N.B. – The lawyer for the man arrested in connection with the deaths of two New Brunswick boys killed by a python says his client faces two charges of criminal negligence causing death.
Leslie Matchim says Jean-Claude Savoie has yet to be charged but will appear in court in Campbellton, N.B., on April 27 to face those charges.
Matchim says Savoie was arrested Thursday in Montreal and released from custody.
He says the nature of the charges is disheartening but Savoie is holding up well.
Four-year-old Noah Barthe and his six-year-old brother Connor were found dead on Aug. 5, 2013, after an African rock python escaped its enclosure inside Savoie’s apartment in Campbellton, where they were staying for a sleepover.
Autopsies concluded that the boys died from asphyxiation.
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