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MONCTON, N.B. The labour association representing RCMP members says it s pleased obstruction charges against two officers in New Brunswick have been dropped. National Police Federation president Brian Sauve said Tuesday in a news release the charges against Cpl. Mathieu Potvin and Const. Eric Pichette were dropped Monday. Potvin and Pichette were among three officers charged with obstruction in December 2019; the police have refused to release information about the case. Sauve says Crown prosecutor Claude Hache told a court in Moncton, N.B., on Monday that new evidence indicated there were no longer reasonable grounds for a conviction. A spokesperson for the Justice Department confirmed Monday that new evidence had come to light that was sufficient for the department to conclude a reasonable prospect of conviction no longer existed. The department said the evidence is privileged and cannot be disclosed.
Posted: Mar 10, 2021 1:56 PM AT | Last Updated: March 10
Matthew Raymond, 50, has been held at a secured hospital facility since he was found not criminally responsible by a jury.(Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press)
The New Brunswick review board has denied a treatment team s request to give Matthew Raymond more privileges while in custody.
Raymond, 50, was found not criminally responsible by a jury in November after admitting to shooting and killing Donnie Robichaud and Bobbie Lee Wright from his storage room window at 237 Brookside Dr., then Fredericton Const. Sara Burns and Const. Robb Costello when they responded to calls of shots fired on Aug. 10, 2018.
CAMPBELLTON, N.B. A New Brunswick review board has declined to give new privileges to the man found not criminally responsible in the 2018 killings of four people in Fredericton. Matthew Raymond is being held at the Restigouche Hospital Centre in Campbellton, N.B. In December Justice Larry Landry of the Court of Queen s Bench deemed Raymond high risk and ordered that he be detained in a high-security hospital. Raymond shot and killed Donnie Robichaud and Bobbie Lee Wright, as well as Fredericton police constables Sara Burns and Robb Costello on Aug. 10, 2018. During the nine-week first-degree murder trial, the defence argued Raymond had a mental illness and believed he was defending himself from demons.