Man not criminally responsible in father’s murder

BY ANDY BLATCHFORD

andy.blatchford@transcontinental.ca

A judge ruled a St. Laurent man was not criminally responsible for his father’s murder last summer.

Dave Narine was arrested in a park on Aug. 28, a day and a half after his father, Latchmy Narine, 67, was stabbed to death during a child’s birthday party at his Dollard des Ormeaux home.

The judge declared Narine not criminally responsible for his father’s murder after a psychiatric evaluation revealed he was delusional, defence lawyer Audrey Amzallag said.

The 34-year-old, who was charged with first degree murder, believed his father was the “devil” and out to kill him, she said.

Narine shared these thoughts with his mother as she drove him to the Dollard home before the party, his lawyer said.

While in the car, he was also carrying what would turn out to be the murder weapon.

“He jumped out of the car and he had the screwdriver on him, that’s why he was accused of murder one,” said Amzallag.

Narine’s father, an award-winning math teacher at Dawson College, was stabbed in the cheek, arm, torso and neck - close to the aorta.

After attacking his father, he fled to a friend’s house and arranged to turn himself in to police at a Dollard park a couple of days later.

Amzallag said Narine will spend the next five or six years undergoing treatment at the Philippe Pinel Institute, a Montreal psychiatric hospital.

She said he will then stand before a tribunal and could be released.

“It is possible, but no real guarantee,” Amzallag said of his release. “Obviously it could be (longer), depending on how he responds to the treatment.”

Narine has a lengthy criminal record that stretches back to 1993.

In 2005, he was arrested for a Côte des Neiges break-in and for violating bail conditions prohibiting him from possessing narcotics.

In June 2006, he was sentenced to 20 days in jail.