OTTAWA - CANADIAN prison authorities were forced to release a 205kg drug gang member this week because he was too large for his cell, the Journal de Montreal newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Michel Lapointe - known as Big Mike - was arrested in September 2006 and received a five-year sentence in May this year. The paper said he could not fit on the chair in his Montreal prison cell and when he went to bed, his body protruded 15cm on either side.
A letter from the authorities to Lapointe said: 'You have been detained for more than 25 months and your prison conditions are difficult because of your health'.
The authorities also cited the refusal of two other facilities to accept the 37-year-old. He was freed late on Tuesday.
'I'm going to have a proper bed and finally have a chair I can sit in,' he told the paper outside the prison.
'I want a normal life. I've done some stupid things and I've paid for them,' he said. -- REUTER
paid for doing stupid things?
I believe he has yet to pay for the drug charge due to the extremely early release from prison.
But he has paid for the junk and oily food that he's consumed. Obviously becoming too fat! 15cm protruding from the bed. DISGUSTING!
frenchie
Sigh... NS also not so good....