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Inmate who made helicopter escape in 2013 faces two first-degree murder charges
SAINT-JEROME, Que. – An inmate who made a dramatic helicopter escape from a Quebec prison in 2013 is facing two charges of first-degree murder and three of attempted murder.
The Crown has filed a preferred indictment against Benjamin Hudon-Barbeau, meaning he will go directly to trial without a preliminary hearing.
He was already in prison when the charges were laid.
The first-degree murder charges relate to two shooting deaths that occurred within a week of each other in 2012.
The 38-year-old Hudon-Barbeau was quickly recaptured after using a chopper to flee the prison in Saint-Jerome in March 2013.
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