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To: Giordano Bruno who wrote (22948)	3/15/2012 6:07:50 PM
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Doctor says double child killer 'ideal candidate' for release First posted: Thursday, March 15, 2012 04:45 PM EDT \| Updated: Thursday, March 15, 2012 04:49 PM EDT Dr. Guy Turcotte. Change text size for the story Print this story Report an error Related Stories Quebec Crown to appeal verdict in Turcotte case Gruesome details at trial of doctor accused of murdering kids Cardiologist found not criminally responsible for killing kids MONTREAL - A psychiatrist said Thursday that double child killer Guy Turcotte is an "ideal candidate to return to the community" as a panel decides whether to free him from a mental hospital. Defence witness Dr. Louis Morissette told the review panel there was "no reason to justify the hospitalization" of the former cardiologist who stabbed his two young children 46 times in 2009. A jury provoked outrage across Canada last year when it found Turcotte not criminally responsible for murdering five-year-old Olivier and three-year-old Anne Sophie amid a crumbling marriage to Isabelle Gaston, also a doctor. Jurors accepted the defence's argument that Turcotte suffered from depression and anxiety and was suicidal after he found out Gaston was having an affair with a friend. Turcotte has been held at the Pinel psychiatric hospital in Montreal since last summer's verdict and he could be set free if the panel decides he's no longer a threat to society. "He is no longer the same man," said Morissette. "He has improved everything he could improve to make sure he doesn't reoffend. He has not had any symptoms of mental illness since the fall." The audience at the Pinel hospital included Turcotte's ex-wife, who has become a victims' rights advocate since the verdict. She said Turcotte was "a chameleon" who has not changed since the murders and still poses a threat to her. "I can't stand it," she told reporters. "It's insulting. He says I'm lying. The defence continues to downplay the rage he expressed to me." The trial heard Turcotte had sent an e-mail to Gaston on the day of the killings that read: "You want war, you'll have war." About 30 protesters held a rally outside the hospital on Thursday in support of Gaston, who launched a petition urging Quebec to improve victims' aid. Nearly 30,000 people have signed it. torontosun.com

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