Killer Quebec Cardiologist Wants to Practise Again

Killer Quebec Cardiologist Wants to Practise Again

at 20:35 on January 12, 2012, EST.
Sidhartha Banerjee, The Canadian Press

MONTREAL - Three years after stabbing his two young children nearly four dozen times, a former Quebec doctor says he's ready to return to society.

Guy Turcotte insists he's a changed man who has fought off depression, is ready for an angry public and is looking forward to continuing therapy outside hospital walls.

The cardiologist, whose medical licence has lapsed, wants to return to the profession. He also wants to find another partner, even though he believes he's not ready for love quite yet.

"Eventually — and I don't know when — I'd like a relationship," Turcotte said Thursday as he testified before a panel that will decide his fate.

"I don't think it's a bad thing to have objectives."

Turcotte's case drew considerable outrage in Quebec, especially when a jury found him not criminally responsible for killing his children in 2009.

Turcotte stabbed his five-year-old son Olivier and three-year-old daughter Anne-Sophie a total of 46 times.


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