Guy LaFleur Gets Suspended Sentence & $100 Fine

Posted June 18, 2009 12:00 pm.

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Hockey legend Guy Lafleur will have a criminal record after being fined $100 and given a one-year-suspended sentence.

The former Montreal Canadiens sniper has also been ordered to donate $10,000 to charity after being convicted last month of giving contradictory evidence at his son’s bail hearing in 2007.

Lafleur initially said his son always respected a court-ordered curfew but he told a subsequent court hearing he drove him to a hotel twice for intimate encounters with his 16-year-old girlfriend.

Lafleur was stoic as Quebec court Judge Claude Parent read the ruling in a Montreal courtroom this afternoon.

Parent said he couldn’t conclude Lafleur acted deliberately but added that didn’t justify or excuse his actions.

Lafleur is appealing the guilty verdict handed down on May 1.

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