Each in their own way, Sonny Barger and Maurice (Mom) Boucher represent different eras in the history of the continent’s most notorious outlaw biker gang — eras that have since passed.
There’s a good chance you’ll see plenty of Hells Angels on the streets and highways this month.The world’s biggest outlaw biker club plans to be out in force, celebrating the end of COVID-19 lockdowns.
That will be followed by a National Run that weekend, which is a series of mandatory get-togethers for the Angels’ 550 members across Canada and their associates.Topics for discussion may include Ronaldo Lising, 59, a long-time B.C. member with a strong Toronto connection and a criminal record for drug trafficking. Someoneon July 4. Lising is recovering from the attack. No arrests have been made.
Boucher seemed to be everywhere then. He was nicknamed “Mom” because he pestered people to pay attention to details, a bit like an overbearing mother. As head of the elite Nomads’ chapter, he decided to attack the justice system head-on. That meant pushing members to kill prison guards, Crown attorneys, judges and police — all crimes for which there was a mandatory life term. That way, he reasoned, there was little chance of them turning informer.In the summer of 2002, Boucher stood trial for the murders of prison guards Diane Lavigne, a mother of two, and Pierre Rondeau and the attempted murder of guard Robert Corriveau in 1997.
He had just co-written a book called, “Hell’s Angel: The Life and Times of Sonny Barger and the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club.”
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