Trial Of Hell's Angel Who Decapitated Elderly Man In Minto, NB Delayed
Greg Carr
FREDERICTON (CP) - The trial for a man accused of the grisly killings
of an elderly couple last year in New Brunswick has been delayed until
early next year.
Gregory Despres, 23, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder
in the deaths of Frederick Fulton, 74, and his common-law wife,
Veronica (Verna) Decarie, 70.
Their bodies were discovered in their home in Minto on April 26, 2005.
Both had been stabbed repeatedly and Fulton had been decapitated.
Despres appeared in court Friday with a new lawyer, Ed Darrah, after
the accused had his first lawyer replaced.
Darrah told Judge Judy Clendening that he has not had time to review
the case.
Clendening agreed to reschedule the start of the trial to Jan. 8. It
was originally scheduled to begin next month.
Just as the proceedings were about to end, Despres stood and made a
plea to the judge for financial and legal help from the Hell's Angels
motorcycle club.
"I am a Hell's Angels member," said Despres.
"I have been denied contact with the Montreal or Toronto Hell's
Angels."
Clendening told Despres to instead focus on his defence.
"You have to focus on working with Mr. Darrah. Listen to him he knows
the law," she said.
Despres' outburst produced laughter from members of the Fulton family
who were present in the courtroom.
"I would feel more comfortable if I had fellow Hell's Angels here . . .
if I had personal body guards from the Hell's Angels," said Despres.
One relative of the Fulton family shouted "I'll be your bodyguard" as
Despres was led from the courtroom.
Family members later taunted and jeered Despres as he was escorted by
sheriff deputies to a waiting van.
"The family is very upset," Michael Richardson, Fulton's nephew, told
reporters.
"It has been 16 months since the murders and we want to get this over
with."
Despres, a U.S. citizen, has been in custody since his arrest in
Massachusetts a day after the bodies were discovered.
Customs officials in Maine later confirmed that they had seized a
variety of items from Despres - including a chainsaw, a homemade sword,
a hatchet and brass knuckles - when he crossed the border.
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Even his fellow Hell's Angels hate this lowlife so much they want him
in prison before he can cut their heads off.
Ottawa South Liberal MP David McGuinty is calling for the Hell's Angels
to be classified a terrorist organization. HA is involved with
extortion, homicide, kidnapping, prostitution, meth and cocaine dealing
and motorcycle theft and child pornography as well as phony currency.
The White Rock chapter Sgt.
Of Arms, Villy Roy Lynnerup, recently was arrested for trying to
board an airplane at YVR
with a loaded firearm. Was probably going to crash the plane into an
oil refinery or something. All the Hell's Angels, their supporters,
associates etc. should be imprisoned, their children put in foster care
and their assets seized.
If you support McGuinty then let him know: McGui...@parl.gc.ca or you
can write him postage free at the House Of Commons.
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Myron Thompson the Wild Rose MP for the Conservatives also supports
making HA a terrorist designated organization.
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ch...@mcgill.ca
wrote:
>http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Atlantic/060825/t082512.html
>
>Just as the proceedings were about to end, Despres stood and made a
>plea to the judge for financial and legal help from the Hell's Angels
>motorcycle club.
>
>"I am a Hell's Angels member," said Despres.
>
>"I have been denied contact with the Montreal or Toronto Hell's
>Angels."
>
>Clendening told Despres to instead focus on his defence.
>
>"You have to focus on working with Mr. Darrah. Listen to him he knows
>the law," she said.
>
>Despres' outburst produced laughter from members of the Fulton family
>who were present in the courtroom.
>
>"I would feel more comfortable if I had fellow Hell's Angels here . . .
>if I had personal body guards from the Hell's Angels," said Despres.
>
I very much doubt he is a Hell's Angel. He's just nuts.
>
>Customs officials in Maine later confirmed that they had seized a
>variety of items from Despres - including a chainsaw, a homemade sword,
>a hatchet and brass knuckles - when he crossed the border.
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I'm waiting for the Custom's Guards to explain why they let this guy
into the US. That should read "bloody chainsaw", and they should add
"bloody clothing".
Chris
Greg Carr
seat and a lead pipe as well and they didn't do anything. I just told
them the truth that it was protection in case I was attacked by crack
heads. Brass knuckles are illegal in Canada so why the US Customs would
allow a person carrying them into the country after confiscating the
various weapons is beyond me.
I don't care how intimidated the Cdn courts are by HA they would never
allow a prisoner/defendant to have their own bodyguards in court.
Desperes actually has some supporters who say he could never have done
such a thing.
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Man with what appeared to be a bloody chain saw let into U.S.
He was later charged with murder in Canada
The Associated Press
Updated: 12:21 a.m. PT June 7, 2005
BOSTON - On April 25, Gregory Despres arrived at the U.S.-Canadian
border crossing at Calais, Maine, carrying a homemade sword, a hatchet,
a knife, brass knuckles and a chain saw stained with what appeared to
be blood. U.S. customs agents confiscated the weapons and fingerprinted
Despres.
Then they let him into the United States.
The following day, a gruesome scene was discovered in Despres'
hometown of Minto, New Brunswick: The decapitated body of a 74-year-old
country musician named Frederick Fulton was found on his kitchen floor.
The man's head was in a pillow case under a kitchen table. His
common-law wife was discovered stabbed to death in a bedroom.
Despres, 22, immediately became a suspect because of a history of
violence between him and his neighbors, and he was arrested April 27
after police in Massachusetts saw him wandering down a highway in a
sweat shirt with red and brown stains. He is now in jail in
Massachusetts on murder charges, awaiting an extradition hearing next
month.
At a time when the United States is tightening its borders, how could a
man toting what appeared to be a bloody chain saw be allowed into the
country?
Questioned for two hours at border
Bill Anthony, a spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said
the Canada-born Despres could not be detained because he is a
naturalized U.S. citizen and was not wanted on any criminal charges on
the day in question.
Anthony said Despres was questioned for two hours before he was
released. During that time, he said, customs agents employed "every
conceivable method" to check for warrants or see if Despres had
broken any laws in trying to re-enter the country.
"Nobody asked us to detain him," Anthony said. "Being bizarre is
not a reason to keep somebody out of this country or lock them up. ...
We are governed by laws and regulations, and he did not violate any
regulations."
Anthony conceded it "sounds stupid" that a man wielding what
appeared to be a bloody chain saw could not be detained. But he added:
"Our people don't have a crime lab up there. They can't look at a
chain saw and decide if it's blood or rust or red paint."
Assault, threat charges in Canada
Sgt. Gary Cameron of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police would not
comment on whether it was, in fact, blood on the chain saw.
On the same day Despres crossed the border, he was due in a Canadian
court to be sentenced on charges he assaulted and threatened to kill
Fulton's son-in-law, Frederick Mowat, last August.
Mowat told police Despres had been bothering his father-in-law for the
past month. When Mowat confronted him, Despres allegedly pulled a
knife, pointed it at Mowat's chest and said he was "going to get
you all."
Police believe the dispute between the neighbors boiled over in the
early-morning hours of April 24, when Despres allegedly broke into
Fulton's home and stabbed the couple.
Fulton's daughter found her father's body two days later. His car
was later found in a gravel pit on a highway leading to the U.S.
border. Despres hitchhiked to the border crossing.
After the bodies were found on the afternoon of April 26, police set up
roadblocks and sent out a bulletin that identified Despres as a
"person of interest" in the slayings, according to the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police.
Mental competence questioned
The bulletin caught the eye of a Quincy police dispatcher because it
gave the suspect's Massachusetts driver's license number, missing a
character. The dispatcher plugged in numbers and letters until she
found a last known address for Despres in Mattapoisett. She alerted
police in that town, and an officer quickly spotted Despres.
In state court the next day, Despres told a judge that he is affiliated
with NASA and was on his way to a Marine Corps base in Kansas at the
time of his arrest.
After the case was transferred to federal court, Despres' attorney,
Michael Andrews, questioned whether his client is mentally competent.
Fulton's friends in Minto, a village of 2,700 people, told the New
Brunswick Telegraph-Journal that he was a popular musician, a guitarist
known as the "Chet Atkins of Minto" and a 2001 inductee in the
Minto Country Music Wall of Fame.
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