MONTREAL – A 48-year-old man arrested after a woman was discovered stabbed to death Thursday in what police describe as a domestic dispute will return to court July 16 to face a charge of first-degree murder.
Ahmad Nehme appeared in Quebec Court Friday afternoon in a white t-shirt, sweatpants, slippers and handcuffs as the charge was read into the record.
Looking dazed and disoriented after being arrested at his LaSalle home where the body of Catherine De Boucherville, the mother of two teenaged children, was discovered, Nehme spoke only to tell Judge Gilles Cadieux he had chosen lawyer Franco Schiro to represent him.
A man described by Schiro as a family member attended the proceeding, and when the accused was asked to confirm his choice of counsel, caught Nehme’s attention, pointed to Schiro and said: “Frank.”
He later refused to speak to journalists.
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