A man who lost his life in a road accident Friday morning, in Sainte-Brigide-d’Iberville, in Montérégie, took advantage of an exit from the psychiatric institute where he was staying after being found not criminally responsible of the murder of his parents.
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Sylvain Guidi, 59, left the road with incredible violence while driving on the row of Scottish people around 11:30 a.m.
The Toyota Venza he was driving hit a tree and then caught fire.
Guidi was ejected from his vehicle on impact. The 50-year-old was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at the hospital.
A specialist in collision reconstruction from the Sûreté du Québec was dispatched to the scene to identify the cause and the circumstances of the road trip.
According to our information, the victim was en route to a friend’s residence in Farnham.
Sylvain Guidi had been interned in a psychiatric institute for about ten years. His last known address is that of the Institut Philippe-Pinel, in Montreal.
In January 2011, the man with significant mental health issues coldly murdered his 72-year-old father and 73-year-old mother with a hunting rifle. The crime was perpetrated inside the couple’s home, in Saint-Jean-de-Matha, in Lanaudière.
It was Sylvain Guidi himself who had telephoned the police to confess to his double murder.
The victims, Claude Guidi and Denise Cloutier, had both been shot in the head.
At the end of his trial, Sylvain Guidi was declared not criminally responsible for the murders on account of mental disorder.
In his verdict, Judge André Vincent took particular account of psychiatric expert reports which concluded that Guidi suffered from paranoid delusional disorder at the time of the events, in addition to having suffered from major depression in the past.