A Montrealer who had helped her friend hide the body of a man who had been tortured and killing during a consumption evening in Lachine finally confessed her wrongs on Friday, four years after the drama.
The head is a little “yes” that Tara Kusic pleaded guilty of complicity after the fact on Friday, at the Montreal courthouse.
The 32 -year -old woman then seemed to hold her sobs, when her lawyer told the context of the drama that occurred in September 2021 which cost Jimmy Méthot, a man she had already attended in the past.
Tara Kusic hid her face during her audience at the Montreal courthouse on July 11, 2025, where she pleaded guilty of complicity after the facts in the dossier of the murder of Jimmy Methot.
Photo Michaël Nguyen
That evening, a group of friends had gathered at Véronique Manceaux, a friend of the accused. With other people, the group had consumed drugs. At one point, Manceaux began to believe that Mr. Methot was a spy in the pay of an ex-groove.
“It made no sense,” said Kusic during his friend’s trial.
Jimmy Methot, victim of a sordid murder in September 2021 in Montreal.
Photo taken from Facebook
A “last meal”
Except that Manceaux was convinced of her idea and she began to take part in the victim. The argument then transported to the kitchen.
“People could hear Véronique Manceaux cry about the victim and all of a sudden, there was a big noise,” says the summary of the facts. When they left the kitchen, the victim was bloody, injured in the neck, looking confused. ”
Manceaux then offered a “last meal” to his victim, or from the frozen chicken pâté, while the latter begged her to have a life saved.
During a search at Véronique Manceaux, the police dwell on this box of chicken pâté. According to the crown, the victim was served a “last meal” before being killed in the residence.
Photo provided by the Court
“I don’t want to die like that,” said, desperate, Jimmy Metal, trying to flee.
Except that he was stopped by a teenager who was on site and armed with a machete. Dragged into the living room, he was then stabbed several times by Manceaux and the young.
“He was in blood, he tried to run away,” said Kusic. I was in shock. “
Photo tabled in evidence at the trial of Véronique Manceaux, accused of the first degree and contempt of the corpse of Jimmy Méthot.
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Placed in a barrel
M. Méthot was then forced to swallow flammable liquid. Already seriously injured, he finally returned the soul. But even if Kusic was terrified, and even if she then kissing the man who had just been “massacred”, the woman then helped the murderers to move Mr. Méthot in the garage.
Light light up was discovered in the home of Véronique Manceaux, where Jimmy Methot was killed.
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The next day, she then bought cleaning products, hoping to make all traces of the murder disappear.
The body was found a few days later, hidden in a barrel placed in the Garage de Manceaux. Arrested and accused in the criminal, the latter was sentenced to life imprisonment, although she disputes the verdict to the court of appeal.
A first aid kit with soiled bandages was found at the home of Véronique Manceaux.
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Kusic, for his part, was not accused of murder, since she did not participate in the crime. But his gestures, afterwards, earned him to be accused.
Now that she has recognized her complicity after the facts, Kusic will have to meet experts who will try to understand what prompted her to help the murderers.
She will return to the Court in January for the pleadings on the penalty to impose on her.
