MONTREAL – Former Montreal police constable Benoit Guay was denied parole Monday after a lengthy hearing at a penitentiary in Ste-Anne-des-Plaines, about 30 kilometres north of Montreal.
Guay is serving an eight-year prison term for a series of offences committed in 2004 and 2005.
Renald Dutil, one of two parole board members who presided over the hearing, told Guay he showed a lack of empathy toward the eight victims during the hearing and said he wasn’t ready to be released.
Guay will reach his statutory release date sometime after Dec. 1.
The attacks occurred in the Montreal suburbs of Laval and St. Jerome and in some cases involved extreme violence in which victims were sexually assaulted while they were threatened with a knife or gun.
Experts who evaluated Guay before he was sentenced assessed him as a “weak to moderate” threat of reoffending.
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