MONTREAL — A convicted killer who spent 51 months on the lam from a prison in Quebec — and who court documents cite as a suspect in a Montreal fire that killed seven people — has pleaded guilty to escaping custody.
Listed as one of Quebec's most wanted criminals, Denis Bégin was arrested in May 2023. On Thursday a judge sentenced him to 18 months in prison to be served concurrently with a life sentence that he is already serving for second-degree murder.
Bégin, 63, was serving a life sentence for a 1993 murder committed in Montreal when he escaped the minimum security section of the Federal Training Centre, a prison north of Montreal. Bégin fled the prison on Feb. 15, 2019. The court heard that an accomplice had been waiting for him outside the Federal Training Centre and helped him escape. The accomplice received a nine-month sentence, which the judge took into consideration in sentencing Bégin.
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