Hubert ‘Yogi’ Thibault describes his $25,000 role in Nicole Doucet’s thwarted murder-for-hire scheme

Nicole Doucet, pictured in Halifax on Jan.17, 2013, eventually told an undercover
RCMP officer that she'd tried to hire Hubert Thibault to kill her husband in late 2007.
But after he received $25,000 in cash, the stubborn fishmonger refused to carry out
the grim task, Ms. Doucet told the undercover officer.

Hubert “Yogi” Thibault was no killer. He sold fish for a living. But that seemed not to matter to Nicole Doucet, the Nova Scotia schoolteacher who asked him to murder her estranged husband, a Canadian Forces soldier named Mike Ryan.

ScreengrabNicole Doucet hiring a hit man, who was actually an RCMP officer.
Ms. Doucet eventually told an undercover RCMP officer that she’d tried to hire Mr. Thibault to kill her husband in late 2007. But after he received $25,000 in cash, the stubborn fishmonger refused to carry out the grim task, Ms. Doucet told the undercover officer.

All true, says Mr. Thibault, speaking publicly for the first time about his role in the notorious murder-for-hire scheme. But Ms. Doucet had given the undercover cop and the courts only part of the story, he adds. The rest involves Ms. Doucet’s father, Herbie Boudreau, the man whom Mr. Thibault claims handed him the cash — in $100 bills — and pressured him to kill Mr. Ryan.

“He was behind the whole thing,” Mr. Thibault alleged in an interview this week with the National Post. “He was the money guy.”  (more...)

Hubert ‘Yogi’ Thibault describes his $25,000 role in Nicole Doucet’s thwarted murder-for-hire scheme