Aimé Simard

Aimé Simard (1968 – 18 July 2003) was a Canadian outlaw biker and hitman, he was a member of the Montreal Rockers Motorcycle 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. The Rockers operated from 1992-Mid 2000s out of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Simard had requested the transfer to Prince Albert Institution in Saskatchewan only a few months prior to his death in 2003. He thought that he would be safer from the Hells Angels associates in Saskatchewan than in British Columbia.

Aimé Simard was facing a sentence of life in prison, so he accepted the police's offer to act as a police informant. 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.

In early February 1997, Simard shot, on the streets of Quebec City, a drug dealer, who owed the Rockers some money, and his girlfriend; both were severely injured. In February 1997, Aimé Simard and Dany Kane drove from Quebec to Halifax, in order to murder a businessman and drug dealer who owed the club money. The pair were ordered by Nomad David "Wolf" Carroll to kill Robert Mcfarlane. MacFarlane was known to be a trouble-maker who was constantly getting into bar fights and was described by one Halifax policeman as: "If you were walking a beat downtown and you saw Bob MacFarlane, you knew within hours you'd be called to that bar. Very obnoxious, very loud, very much full of himself". Another policeman stated that Carroll had put a $25,000 contract on McFarlane's life "because he was such an asshole". Carroll had been the president of the Angels' Halifax chapter from 1984 to 1990, and after he moved to Montreal, he remained closely involved in the operations of the Halifax chapter. Carroll had a low opinion of the Halifax chapter as a "bunch of Boy Scouts" except for chapter president Mike McCrea, and regularly went back to Halifax to monitor operations.

On their way to Halifax, Simard and Kane were pulled over by the RCMP under the suspicion of smuggling drugs; though no drugs were found, it caused a "silent hit" on the RCMP's computers, which alerted officers whenever an informer has contact with the police, which led them to become curious about what Kane was doing in New Brunswick. On 27 February 1997, Kane and Simard followed MacFarlane from the security business he owned, the Spy Store, to an industrial park where he wanted to show off to some friends some antique cars he owned. MacFarlane had noticed he had been followed, and upon parking his car, got out to confront the two Rockers. Simard opened fire with a .38-calibre handgun and wounded MacFarlane who ran away, screaming. Simard got out of his car and followed MacFarlane, to shoot him in the neck while Kane fired two shots that missed. Kane deliberately missed so he could tell his RCMP handlers that he had not killed MacFarlane. Afterwards, Simard and Kane drove back to Montreal, only stopping to drop off their guns, clothing, and the stolen Nova Scotia license plates into a forest. Unknown to Kane and Simard, the security cameras at the warehouse had recorded the killing, but the grainy footage taken at night made identification difficult. This was Simard's first murder.

On 5 March 1997, Kane was asked by his RCMP handlers about Simard, whom he called "very unpredictable and dangerous...capable of anything". In the meantime, Simard murdered the principle eyewitness to the shooting he had done in February in Quebec City. On 28 March 1997, Simard killed Jean-Marc Caissy in Montreal. Simard later testified that the orders for the "hit" came from the Rocker president Gregory Wooley. Caissy of the Rock Machine was killed leaving a hockey area in Montreal, when Simard walked up to him, shot him in the head, and then dialed 555 357 on his pager to alert his superior Pierre Provencher that the murder was done. Simard left the murder weapon, a Magnum handgun, at a locker at the Pro-Gym where it was found by a janitor, who reported the gun to the police. Ballistic tests showed the Magnum was the gun that had killed Caissy, which left the police wondering why Simard had left the gun at the gym instead of throwing it away. On 11 April 1997, Simard was arrested by the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal after he went back to the gym to retrieve his gun. After his arrest, Simard agreed to become a délateur (informer) and named all of the crimes he had committed, including the murder of McFarlane. Both Kane and Simard were charged with the murder of Mcfarlane. The government decided to take advantage of this opportunity and transformed Simard into their personal weapon; as a government witness. Simard decided to accept to betray the Rockers and Hells Angels, which made him a target for the Hells Angels group. The revelation that Kane had been involved in the murder of McFarlane caused a major crisis in inter-police relations, as the RCMP sought to protect their informer Kane.

In November 1996, Simard began a relationship with Kane. Simard had met Kane via an online gay dating service. As Simard's mother was in Florida on vacation, Simard took Kane to his mother's house, where the two men had sex in the whirlpool. Kane, who was only a Rocker, lied to Simard by saying he was a Hells Angel while Simard lied to Kane by saying he gone to prison for trying to kill a policeman. Kane sponsored Simard into the Rockers. Simard was the complete opposite of Kane, being described as reckless and out of control while Kane was a control freak. As Kane was senior to Simard in the Rockers, the latter had to serve as his chauffeur, through Simard was a poor driver who twice caused accidents that smashed up Kane's cars.