QUEBEC MAN APPEALS TO UN TO STAY FREE OF MEXICAN PRISON

GATINEAU, QUE. -- A Quebec man on the lam from a Mexican jail has
lost his last bid to
stay in Canada using this country's justice system.

Regent Boily, 62, will now turn to the United Nations Commission on
Human Rights' Committee Against Torture.

Lawyer Christian Deslauriers says sending Boily back to Mexico is
sending him to torture.

Deslauriers is asking the UN body to order Canada to keep Boily in the
country.

Boily escaped a Mexican prison in March 1999 after serving one year of
a 14-year sentence after being busted there with half a tonne of
marijuana in the trunk of a car.

During Boily's escape, one of his accomplices shot and killed a prison
guard. Boily was arrested on an Interpol arrest warrant in 2005 after
he had been living in the open for six years.

He's been in custody in Gatineau ever since.