A convicted killer who spent 51 months on the lam from a prison in Quebec—and who court documents cite as a suspect in a Montreal fire that killed seven people—has pleaded guilty to escaping custody.
Listed as one of Quebec’s most wanted criminals, Denis Bégin was arrested in May 2023. On March 21 a judge sentenced him to 18 months in prison to be served concurrently with a life sentence that he is already serving for second-degree murder.
