Dany Kane

Ever since the 1960s, there has been an outlaw biker subculture in Quebec, and Kane embraced it as a way of rejecting the values of his working-class family.

Josée reported from his teenage years onward Kane had wanted to join an outlaw biker club, with the Hells Angels being his first choice.

In 1983, Kane met and started to date a 13-year-old girl, known under the pseudonym of Josée as she does not want her real to be known, who later became his wife.

He grew up discontented with his life and wanted recognition in a bike gang in Quebec.

Kane was a restless student who was incapable of sitting still in class.

When he was 16 he left school and took whatever work he could get.

Robert Guimard, the neighbor of his parents, introduced him to motorcycles and not long after he fell into the biker fraternity life of strip clubs run by the bikers in the small towns around Montreal.

In June 1990, Josée gave birth to the first of Kane's children, a son named Benjamin.

Kane's first crime was a break-and-enter when he was seventeen.

By the age of eighteen, Kane joined a small biker gang based in St-Hubert named the Condors led by Patrick Lambert.

While working for the Condors he earned around $700 a week making sure dealers had the product they needed.

The Condors merged with a Hells Angels puppet group known as the Evil Ones, but Kane resented having to prove himself again to a new set of bikers and decided to branch out and sell drugs, guns, and cigarettes on his own.

From 1990 to 1992 he was making $3000 a week from drug trafficking and sold between thirty and fifty guns and accessories.

Kane was very active as a gun-runner, buying illegal guns smuggled in from the United States via the Kahnawake Mohawk reserve, which straddles the border between Quebec and New York state, and is one of the main smuggling routes between Montreal and New York city.

Kane sold guns to anyone who asked and had enough money.

Between 1990-1992, Kane sold at least 50 guns, which were mostly handguns or machine guns, with an average profit of $300-$400 per gun sold.

Kane's wife, Josée, grew increasingly unhappy over the summer of 1992 with the criminals that her husband kept bringing home as she told him that his friends were disreputable, dishonest and dangerous.

Two of Kane's friends, Martin Giroux and Eric Baker, validated his wife's concerns by stealing 20 of his illegal guns with the intention of selling the stolen arms themselves.

In September 1992, Kane and two other men nearly beat two men to death.

Kane shot Baker in the legs, saying this was punishment for stealing his guns.

During the beating he accidentally shot Baker in the head.

Baker was left for dead in a sandpit, but was able to crawl his way to a farmhouse despite his wounds.

Kane was convicted of conspiracy to murder, kidnapping, assault, illegal use of a firearm and possession of a gun with the serial number filed off.

He was given a 25-month sentence of which he only served ten months in prison and another five in a transition home.

Kane was a member of the outlaw motorcycle groups known as the Condors, the Rockers, and the Demon Keepers, all of which were the puppet clubs of the Hells Angels.

He had ties to Maurice Boucher, the biggest name in the Canadian Hells Angels.

When his business began to suffer because he did not belong to a group, Kane approached two members of the Hells Angels, Walter Stadnick and David "Wolf" Carroll, with hope that they could get him into the Hells Angels.

After a year passed, with Kane doing what he thought was slave labour without being invited to the MC, he became annoyed with Stadnick and Carroll for not getting him into the MC.

The Hells Angels is a hierarchical organization that requires recruits start in a puppet club.

If they do well, they graduate to the title of hang around, where they can't wear the patch but are considered an associate.

Next, they become a prospect, where they get a half patch that shows the chapter's title.

Dany "Dany Boy" Kane (1969 – 7 August 2000) was a Canadian criminal who was a compliant police informant at the same time.

Kane worked for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) as an informant inside the Hells Angels for many years, and provided information to the police on the Hells Angels.

Kane was found dead of an apparent suicide in the garage of his suburban Montreal home in the summer of 2000.

Born in L'Acadie, Quebec (now Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec), as a child Kane was brought up by caring relatives, attended private school and Boy Scouts, and went on many expensive vacations.

Kane's father, Jean-Paul Kane, was a bricklayer, while mother Gemma Brideau was a housewife.

Kane's family was poor, but respectable.

To save money, Kane's parents sent him away to live with an uncle, which damaged Kane's self-esteem.

Kane was a loner who disliked revealing his feelings and always felt out of place.

Germain Godin, the owner of a local grocery store who employed Kane as a teenager, recalled: "He was always very polite, a good employee. He was easy to deal with. It was a good family".