MONTREAL – Guy Turcotte, a former Quebec doctor, is due in court on Thursday after surrendering to police.
Authorities say they intend to charge Turcotte, once again, with two counts of first-degree murder.
In a controversial verdict in 2011, he was found not criminally responsible due to a mental disorder for the shocking 2009 stabbing deaths of his two young children.
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Yesterday, an arrest warrant was issued for Turcotte, just hours after the Quebec Court of Appeal tossed out the verdict and ordered a new trial.
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Police say Turcotte surrendered at a police station.
In the initial trial, court was told his five-year-old son and three-year-old daughter were stabbed 46 times as they lay in their beds.
Turcotte was released after 46 months of detention in a prison and eventually a mental institution.
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