Flanked by hooded accomplices, an angry drug seller delivered a harsh beating to a customer who wanted to avoid paying him for a small quantity of cocaine.
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“The reasonable, well-informed and realistic person knows that a drug debt cannot be collected like a debt with a banking institution,” underlined Judge Charles-Olivier Gosselin.
The magistrate recently found Axel-Kevin Thibodeau-Beauchamp guilty of breaking and entering into a residential house, committing assault there as well as trafficking drugs.
The facts of this case occurred in Quebec in August 2021.
The victim in this case met the accused to purchase a gram of cocaine. In June 2020 in Montreal, such a quantity could be worth up to $150, the usual price having been doubled by the effects of the pandemic, according to what was reported The newspaper.
After getting his hands on the drugs, the client quickly canceled the bank transfer made to Axel-Kevin Thibodeau-Beauchamp.
“He thus wishes to ‘cross’ the accused, since he had already sold him poor quality drugs,” we report in Judge Gosselin’s judgment.
“Nice drain”
This gesture aroused the ire of the 30-year-old man who quickly went to knock on the victim’s door.
Despite numerous calls, he was unable to reach his client. “Good Bin I sent the visit,” Thibodeau-Beauchamp wrote to him.
“Hey, you’re a nice drain,” he added in a voice message.
Two hours later, four hooded people, including the accused, broke down the door of the victim’s residence.
During an altercation, she was beaten with a stick and notably suffered head injuries. This earned him stitches.
In his testimony, Axel-Kevin Thibodeau-Beauchamp said he wanted to warn the victim of the risks of such a debt.
He also claimed to have received a visit from his supplier at the same time and to have finally given the customer’s address, “otherwise, it was him[-même] who passed there.
Inconsistent
However, “the version he delivered is implausible, inconsistent and incompatible with the evidence,” judges Gosselin said.
“The accused cannot claim that he was not “badly intentioned” when he wrote to the complainant “Good Bin I sent the visit” and this irremediably affects the credibility of his testimony,” adds the magistrate.
In the eyes of the court, Thibodeau-Beauchamp, who has no criminal record, wanted to make his client fear and intimidate him in order to get paid.
He will know his sentence later. His case returns to court on April 19.
Axel-Kevin Thibodeau-Beauchamp is defended by Me Benoit Labrecque. Me Sarah Garneau represents the public prosecutor.