[3] As a young man, Beaucage accumulated a lengthy criminal record for various violent crimes starting in 1964 as he joined an outlaw biker gang.
[4] One policeman from the London police department, Don Andrews, said of Beaucage: "You always knew Brian wasn't going to die a natural death".
[1] Roger Caron, a prisoner at Kingston penitentiary turned writer, described Beaucage along with Wayne Ford and Barrie MacKenzie as being "natural leaders".
[11] Beaucage disliked Knight, but was assigned by him along with Ford and MacKenzie to serve as the inmate "police force" in charge of keeping order.
"[16] Beaucage then mentioned that the Solicitor-General, Jean-Pierre Goyer, had just given a speech saying he would not negotiate with Knight, which the prisoners were aware of by listening to their transistor radios.
The Horrifying Eyewitness Account of a Prison Riot: "What was building up inside the dome was a mass suicide pact orchestrated by the insane element".
[20] On 18 April 1971, the "undesirables" were tied to chairs, had their heads covered with bedsheets and with Beaucage shouting orders were beaten bloody by the other prisoners.
[22] He encouraged the other prisoners who beat the condemned men with their fists, metal bars, hammers and anything else that would inflict pain, which caused the area under the dome to be socked in their pools of their blood.
[3] One of the prisoners tied in the circle and beaten bloody, Richard Moore, recalled that he was in intense pain and could barely see as too much of his own blood oozed over his eyes.
[23] As Moore was a very attractive young man, many of the other prisoners at Kingston penitentiary had wanted to rape him, which led him to ask to being transferred to the 1-D wing for the "undesirables" for his own safety.
[24] To the tune of blaring rock music, a child molester, Brian Ensor, was beaten very brutally and finally had his throat slashed with a homemade knife.
[24] Beaucage seemed to take a sadistic pleasure as Ensor screamed and sobered in pain under the shower of blows to his body while his hood was soaked in his blood.
[26] To put a stop to the impeding massacre as Beaucage was intent upon torturing and killing all of the "undesirables", MacKenzie, who had returned to the 4-B wing, agreed to release the hostages.
[30] Justice William Henderson who oversaw the trial was angry with the casual hippie appearance of the students as he stated that his courtroom would not be "a haven for bums".
[31] Justice Henderson ordered the court marshals to ensure that all in the visitors' gallery be "properly dressed" and to turn away those whose clothing and appearance he deemed improper.
[32] On 22 November 1971, the Crown in an unexpected move made a plea bargain with Beaucage where the charge of two counts of first-degree murder were dropped in exchange for him pleading guilty to assault causing bodily harm with regard to the beating of Ensor.
[33] Justice Henderson accepted the plea bargain as he argued that the crimes of child molesters were such that it generated such an "irrational" hatred that those who had killed Ensor and Robert could not be held legally responsible.
[34] The plea bargain along with Justice Henderson's comments-which essentially justified the murders of Ensor and Robert-were extremely controversial at the time and remain so.
[35] On 13 December 1971, Michael Valpy of The Globe & Mail revealed that there had been a secret deal to end the trial as Justice Henderson had called several meetings with the defense lawyers and the Crown Attorneys to discuss how to arrange plea bargains to give the accused the lightest possible sentences.
[38] Beaucage's role in the Kingston prison riot along with his claims to have killed Ensor and Robert had made him into a celebrity in the Canadian underworld.
[38] Peter Edwards, the crime correspondent of The Toronto Star, wrote that Beaucage "adopted the Choice's hatred of the Outlaws with the fervor of a true zealot".
[38] On 16 January 1987, Beaucage during a visit to London was shot by an Outlaw with .45 caliber handgun, taking a bullet to the heart, but again survived the shooting.
[42] Beaucage spent the night of 3 March 1991 devoted to drinking, hard drugs and watching pornography in a disreputable Toronto rooming house on Lansdowne Avenue along with his girlfriend and a member of the Loners gang, Frank Passarelli.
[43] On the same night, Beaucage was beheaded in his bed by Passarelli, with his body not found until the next day, being partially devoured by the dogs belonging to another boarder.
[43] The gruesome nature of Beaucage's murder led it to take on a legendary reputation within Canadian biker circles, being known inaccurately as the "Fifty Whacks with an Ax".