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Crown appeals decision to grant bail to Quebec man charged with killing his kids

Darpan News Desk Canadian Press, 26 Sep, 2014 11:56 AM

    MONTREAL - The Crown will ask Quebec's highest court to review a decision to grant bail to a former doctor facing murder charges in the killing of his two children.

    Guy Turcotte was given bail two weeks ago while awaiting a new trial on two counts of first-degree murder.

    That trial is scheduled to take place in September 2015.

    The province's director of criminal and penal prosecutions has filed a motion with the Quebec Court of Appeal, asking it to review the bail decision.

    In granting bail, Superior Court Justice Andre Vincent said Turcotte does not represent a danger to society and is entitled to the presumption of innocence as he awaits the new proceedings.

    Turcotte, 42, is charged in the stabbing deaths of Olivier, 5, and Anne-Sophie, 3, at a rented family home north of Montreal in early 2009.

    A jury found Turcotte not criminally responsible in 2011 and he was released from a psychiatric institution the following year.

    The appeals court overturned that verdict last November and ordered a new trial.

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