Hearing for Maurice ‘Mom’ Boucher switched to Montreal for security reasons

LONGUEUIL, Que. – A judge has ordered that murder-related proceedings involving former Hells Angels kingpin Maurice “Mom” Boucher be switched to a Montreal courthouse

Boucher is to have a preliminary hearing next week on charges of conspiracy to murder crime figure Raynald Desjardins in prison.

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The hearing was to be held in Longueuil, in the south shore of Montreal, but a judge agreed Friday to a Crown request it be moved to the Gouin courthouse.

That Montreal facility is linked by a tunnel to a detention centre where Boucher will stay during the hearing.

Boucher is currently serving life imprisonment in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines penitentiary, north of Montreal, after having been convicted of first-degree murder for ordering the killings of two prison guards in 1997.