A 71-year-old man was handed a second life sentence — and will have to serve at least eight years behind bars before he becomes eligible for parole again — for his role in an armoured car heist carried out in Parc-Extension four years ago.

Eugene Fengstad was already serving a life sentence and was out on parole on Oct. 18, 2021, when he and his accomplice, 49-year-old Ghislain Bouffard, carried out the robbery close to a bank on Jean-Talon St. near Querbes Ave.

Fengstad received his first life sentence in 1996 for wounding a Brinks guard in Vancouver on Dec. 18, 1989, during a robbery in a shopping mall in which the guard was shot in the throat. Fengstad and an accomplice made off with $300,000.

During the 2021 robbery, two guards were pepper-sprayed (by Bouffard) and a shot was fired.

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