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escape on March 24, 2010, while he went out to a food bank. Cormier offered a different account, telling the court that the woman wanted to be with him and that she had enlisted him to kill her husband. The woman was recalled to the witness stand where she rejected his testimony. Dionne gave Cormier credit for the 512 days he has already served in remand. Cormier took issue with the sentence. “I respect you your honour, but I think you were too harsh on me,� he said. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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B-boy Nate Dixon shows o his moves at a press conference for the Hopscotch Festival outside the Pavilion on Thursday. The festival, which showcases urban art and hip-hop culture, will run from Sept. 8-11. Story, page 5.
Romeo Cormier was given an 18year prison sentence Thursday for keeping a New Brunswick woman captive and sexually assaulting her in his one-room basement apartment for nearly a month last year. “It is necessary to separate Mr. Cormier from society,� said Judge Zoel Dionne of the Court of Queen’s Bench. “These crimes were horrendous.� Last month, a jury found Cormier, 63, guilty of kidnapping, forcible confinement, sexual assault, assault with a weapon, robbery and uttering death threats. The 55-year-old woman — whose identity is protected by a publication ban — testified during the trial that Cormier grabbed her at knifepoint on the night of Feb. 26, 2010, outside the shopping mall where she worked. She said she was held in the basement of a rooming house where he sometimes gagged and sexually assaulted her until she was able to