Almost 25 years after killing his ex-spouse by violating her, a murderer who had convinced a jury to release him under conditions earlier than expected is back behind bars because he would have sexually assaulted his new companion several times.
His recent victim, aged 56, said that he had lived in domestic violence in several forms, physical, psychological, emotional, financial and sexual, during his relationship with Isaac Renquinha. This is what she affirms in a letter sent to the Conditional Liberations Commission of Canada (CLCC).
In April 2001, the man killed the mother of his two daughters by sexually assaulting him with an imposing vibrator. Pierrette Charrette, who had broken with him a few months earlier, died of a massive hemorrhage.
Pierrette Charrette, 43, was killed at home in April 2001
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When he learned that she frequented another man, Renquinha wanted to have sex with her “to give her a lesson,” it is said in a recent CLCC report.
He had been serving since a perpetuity imprisonment without the possibility of parole before 25 years.
“Last chance clause”
But in 2017, a jury had determined that he could ultimately be eligible for total parole in 2019, seven years earlier than expected. Renquinha had prevailed by a provision of the Criminal Code nicknamed “Last Chance Clause”, which is now repealed.
The newspaper had then reported that he had had six joints in detention and that a psychologist had noted a “past tendency to seduce compulsively”.
The murderer finally obtained his total parole in April 2024 and he had lived since with a new spouse. Until she composed the 911 to denounce the domestic violence of which she was the victim last November.
Sexual assault
Renquinha would have notably “put a pillow on his head by performing a pressure” and he would have “taken his throat” during sex, can be read in the recent CLCC decision.
The murderer would also have started consuming alcohol again, even if it was forbidden to him.
However, he did not believe to be “back in [ses] ancient patterns And that this situation could peak towards a recurrence or the adoption of violent behavior, “it added.
Renquinha is struggling with a narcissistic personality disorder with limited personality traits. According to his case management team at the penitentiary, he has a low esteem of himself, is impulsive and is dependent emotional.
He is now accused of having sexually assaulted his partner by strangling him and stifling him between June 2021, while he was still in semi-liberty, and his return to the penitentiary in November 2024. He would also have committed an armed sexual assault.
According to a psychological assessment carried out during this period, Renquinha presented a risk of rather small violent recurrence in the medium term. This evaluation could however be revised upwards “to be of emotional difficulties during a rupture, which could cause feelings of rejection, abandonment and humiliation,” it was noted.
Isaac Renquinha will have to appear soon at the Saint-Jérôme courthouse.