Aime Simard

Aimé Simard (1968 – 18 July 2003) was a Canadian outlaw biker and hitman. He was a member of the Montreal-based Rockers Motor Club, a support club for the Hells Angels. He operated on the side as a contract killer, working for the Hells Angels and other organized crime groups in Canada. He would later turn crown witness and inform on his club. Simard made a plea-bargain with the Crown, receiving 12 years in prison for one count of second-degree murder. Simard proved to be an inept witness on the stand. One judge, Félix Cacchione, said that Simard "displayed a cold-blooded remorseless and a manipulative personality while testifying" during Kane's trial for murdering MacFarlane in 1998. Likewise, the 1998 trial of the Rocker president Gregory Wooley for ordering Caissy's murder ended with Wooley's acquittal, as Simard proved to be a poor witness on the stand.

Because of the deal he struck, Simard was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 12 years. While in prison, Simard was left alone in the general population, as a known police informant who betrayed his gang.

Simard reported that he felt like he was a hunted man in prison. On 18 July, Aimé Simard was found in his cell suffering from 187 puncture wounds.

An inmate told authorities that he had been present at a prison-yard meeting during which Starblanket accepted a $25,000 contract to go after Simard. Anthony Tawiyaka, the inmate at the Prince Albert Institution, testified that he observed Starblanket and Cluney enter into Simard's cell, and that he saw Simard sit up after he had been stabbed.

Starblanket plead guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to life without parole for the first 13 years of his sentence. Starblanket's co-accused, Christopher Cluney, who was 33 at the time, was tried for first degree murder, but instead received a charge of second degree murder.