Guy Turcotte, who killed his 2 children, denied supervised outing from prison
Guy Turcotte leaves the courtroom at the Saint JΓ©rΓ΄me courthouse, Dec. 5, 2015, on the sixth day of jury deliberations in his trial. Turcotte was convicted of second-degree murder in the deaths of his two children, Olivier and Anne-Sophie. (Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press)Social SharingGuy Turcotte, a Quebec man serving a life sentence for stabbing his two children to death, was denied supervised outings from prison by the Parole Board of Canada on Tuesday.
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A Quebec man found guilty of second-degree murder in the stabbing deaths of his two children is expected to appear today before the Parole Board of Canada.
Guy Turcotte is expected to make a request for temporary escorted absences from prison.
The former cardiologist was found guilty in December 2015 after stabbing his five-year-old son Olivier and his three-year-old daughter Anne-Sophie dozens of times in 2009.
The now 54-year-old was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 17 years.
Turcotte was originally found not criminally responsible for the murders in 2011, but that verdict was overturned on appeal.
A spokesperson for the Parole Board of Canada says decisions on escorted temporary absence requests are not published, but may be delivered orally at the end of the hearing.
