Originally, the plan was to take the tattoo off with a knife. Peltier was the one who had originally applied the tattoo between White's thumb and forefinger, Rajna said. "It's kind of like being taken to the edge of a cliff and being told, 'Jump or we're going to push you."' White was given two choices - fight them all or submit to having the tattoo removed, Rajna said. Some people felt he was "talking too much.''Ībout six men had gathered in Keefe's room to drink when discussion began about White's allegiance to the gang. White wasn't keeping the confidences of the group,'' Rajna said. Rajna said White, who has a criminal record, "is no angel.'' Kitchener's Ontario Court heard that all the men were living at a rooming house on Laurel Street in Waterloo last February. "Clearly, this is the sort of abhorrent conduct the court must respond to in an appropriate'' way, Justice John Lynch said before sentencing Peltier to 23 months in jail.īecause he got double credit for the seven months he'd spent in pretrial custody, he has to spend nine more months in jail.
Two gang members, Bradley Peltier and Shawn Keefe, were charged with aggravated assault for administering the gang justice to White.Ī similar charge was withdrawn yesterday against 19-year-old John Carter in return for Peltier's guilty plea. "It was not a quick thing,'' Rajna added. When the punishment became too much for Jamal White and he cried out, his tormenters duct-taped his hand to the edge of a chair to keep him from moving, Rajna said. Prosecutor Andre Rajna described how several members of the Stick-Up Kids used a cheese grater to scrape off a gang tattoo from the hand of a member they thought had ratted on them. The world of Kitchener street gangs is rarely open to public view, but yesterday in court, a sickening picture of life on the streets was revealed.
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