This article written in french by Geneviève Quessy was automatically translated using AI
Already incarcerated for brutally assaulting a woman in a Montreal wooded area in 2022, David Catudal has been sentenced again for assaulting another woman a few months prior.
The 38-year-old made headlines in June 2023 for a heinous rape in May 2022, for which he was sentenced to four and a half years in prison.
He forced a woman exiting the Papineau metro station in Montreal to follow him into a wooded area, where he threw her to the ground, tore her pants, and sexually assaulted her.
At the time, David Catudal was serving weekend jail time for a 2019 armed assault case.
A few months before the Papineau metro assault, he attacked a friend during an evening of heavy drinking and drug use, a crime for which he was sentenced on November 14 at the Laval courthouse to an additional 18 months in prison.
Catudal pleaded guilty to charges of sexual assault with strangulation, mischief, and breaching conditions.
On the day of the assault, Catudal visited his friend in Terrebonne intending to repay a debt. They spent the evening consuming alcohol and freebase, ordering drugs twice from a dealer.
Tensions arose when Catudal’s freebase pipe broke, and he tried to use his friend’s pipe, leading to a conflict. Catudal began damaging his friend’s belongings, prompting her to hit him in the face, breaking two of his teeth.
“When the police arrived, the apartment was in complete disarray,” recounted Crown Prosecutor Amélie Joannette. “There was blood on the walls, glass on the floor, the oven door was ripped off, and burners were scattered throughout the apartment. The table, chairs, and desks were overturned. Food was strewn everywhere, the washing machine was moved, and the shower curtain was torn down.”
Initially, the victim did not file a complaint, but two days later, she called the police after presenting at a hospital covered in bruises.
Catudal admitted to attempting to strangle his friend with a laundry basket.
Judge Marie-Ève Landreville sentenced him to remain in prison for an additional 18 months. Upon release, he will serve three years of probation under various conditions.
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