Pubdate: Fri, 06 Jul 2007
Source: Ottawa Sun (CN ON)
Copyright: 2007 Canoe Limited Partnership
Contact:  http://www.ottawasun.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/329
Author: Sean Mckibbon, Courts Bureau

APPEALS RUNNING OUT FOR DEALER

A Quebec man on the lam from a Mexican jail has lost his last bid to
stay in Canada using our justice system.

Regent Boily, 62, will now turn to the United Nations Commission on
Human Rights' Committee Against Torture, says his lawyer Christian
Deslauriers.

"Sending him back to Mexico is sending him to torture" said
Deslauriers, who has asked the UN body's Special Rapporteur on torture
to order Canada to keep Boily in the country.

Boily escaped a Mexican prison in March 1999 after serving one year of
a 14-year sentence after being busted there with half a tonne of pot
in the trunk of a car.

GUARD KILLED

During Boily's escape, one of his accomplices shot and killed a prison
guard, said Deslauriers. Boily, who is wanted on a manslaughter charge
in Mexico, would face reprisals from prison staff in a country
Deslauriers says is rife with torture.

Boily was arrested by MRC des Collines police on an INTERPOL arrest
warrant in 2005 after he had been living in the open for six years.
He's been in custody in Gatineau ever since.

He was ordered extradited and was unsuccessful in Quebec's appellate
court.

"One of the problems is that Canada relies on assurances that he won't
be tortured," said Deslauriers. Boily says he was already subjected to
torture.

"The state has no control," said Deslauriers, who expects a decision
on an interim order from the Special Rapporteur today.
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