More than 29 years after one of the most odious crimes in the history of the province, one of the two murderers of Sherbrookeoise Isabelle Bolduc is again refusing parole.
Jean-Paul Bainbridge, now 54 years old, had however withdrawn from his request and did not appear before the Conditional Liberations Commission of Canada (CLCC) to defend his arguments.
The commission was to look at the possibility of a total parole “provided by law” in the case of Bainbridge, in addition to a semi-liberty request in the transition house that the detainee had presented. In early June, the murderer had informed the commission, however, that he renounced his hearing. The CLCC nevertheless rendered a decision and refused to Bainbridge as much the total parole as the semi-freedom in a transitional house.
In the company of Marcel Blanchette and Guy Labonté in 1996 in Sherbrooke, Bainbridge had removed, kidnapped and sexually assaulted Isabelle Bolduc. After inflicting the worst sexual abuse for about twenty hours on their victim, Bainbridge and Blanchette had trained it in a wooded to kill it with iron bar.
Marcel Blanchette, now almost 80 years old, had obtained exit permissions with escort in 2023, to the chagrin of the family of Isabelle Bolduc. Guy Labonté, on the other hand, had served a sentence of six years in prison for sequestration after the events.
The psychologist who carried out the most recent assessment of the prisoner’s risk, in February 2025, retained the presence of an antisocial personality disorder, a disorder of alcohol use in controlled environment as well as a disorder of use of cannabis and opiates. The result of a test called risk assessment guide is also qualified as “overwhelming”, Bainbridge being in 5% of prisoners with the highest risk of violent recurrence, according to the committee’s decision.
“Thus, by signing all the elements in your case, the Commission cannot ignore that at present, you present, according to the results of the actuarial scales, a risk of recurrence above the average, which in the light of your crimes requires very much caution. Without minimizing your progress and efforts, which are real, the Commission notes, in the light of the above, that the implementation of the tools taught must still be worked, ”it can be read in the decision of nine pages.
The commission also notes that the Bainbridge Bainbridge project about semi-freedom is “not devoid of meaning”, but is not satisfied.
“You remain an individual who presents a risk well above the average, in the highest risk category. The Commission considers that you must continue your process of social reintegration in a gradual manner through a declassification of your security rating. The Commission encourages you to continue your correctional commitment and to demonstrate over a significant period your ability to remain sober and to remain distant from problematic fellowship, while developing your skills in order to reduce your risk of recurrence. », Can we read in the extract from the decision of the Conditional Liberations Commission of Canada.
