CTrain killer Pasqua gets 15 months for horrific attack
‘When you are intoxicated, you are a violent menace,’ judge tells woman
Notorious killer Natalie Pasqua has added another two convictions to her lengthy criminal record — one which a judge said could end up seeing her do “life” on the instalment plan.
Provincial court Judge Paul Mason somewhat reluctantly accepted a joint submission to sentence Pasqua to 15 months jail, without additional probation, after she pleaded guilty Tuesday.
Mason agreed with defence lawyer Adriano Iovinelli and Crown prosecutor Pam McCluskey that Pasqua’s rehabilitation is dependent on her wanting to deal with her drug and alcohol addictions.
“I can only assume that when you are not intoxicated you are a pleasant person,” Mason said, addressing Pasqua directly.
“When you are intoxicated you are a violent menace.”
He said based on her lengthy criminal record and inability to be rehabilitated, Pasqua appeared to be following “a pattern of an instalment plan of life in prison.”
Pasqua, 36, admitted charges of assault causing bodily harm and theft of a motor vehicle in connection with incidents last July.
Charges of robbery and kidnapping were dropped as part of a plea deal brokered between Iovinelli and McCluskey.
Reading from a statement of agreed facts, McCluskey told Mason the victim was drinking in a downtown parking lot with Pasqua and others last July 25.
The woman decided to take a cab home and went to her car to retrieve something, the prosecutor said.
“Pasqua and a man drinking with the group told (her) they needed her car,” McCluskey said.
The man then got behind the wheel with Pasqua next to him and the woman in the back seat.
Something made Pasqua mad and she turned around and punched the victim.
They drove around for several hours and, at one point, they stopped at a house where Pasqua exited the vehicle, only to return a short time later extremely angry.
She then punched the victim, pulled her hair, and repeatedly beat the woman, at one point digging her fingers into her eyeballs.
The woman was “intoxicated, injured, confused and frightened,” McCluskey said.
“She determined she should ‘play dead’ in hopes Pasqua’s beating would stop.”
The woman was eventually able to unlock the vehicle door and escape.
McCluskey said the victim, whom Postmedia is not naming, was willing to testify, but feared doing so would be extremely traumatic.
She said the woman had struggled with alcohol addiction in the past, but had been dealing with it until that day.
“On the date in question she slipped — she paid horribly for that slip,” McCluskey said.
Pasqua has a lengthy history of involvement with the legal system, including a 2009 conviction for manslaughter in the death of a Calgary teen.
She was sentenced to the equivalent of five years and four months for pushing 17-year-old Gage Prevost into the path of a CTrain, which was arriving at a downtown LRT station.
With credit for time already served since her arrests, Pasqua will have an additional 111 days to serve in custody.