Ottawa murder suspect Jacques 'Porkchop' Rouschop denied medical bail

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A career criminal Ottawa police have linked to the 2013 Amy Paul homicide was denied medical bail on Tuesday.

The evidence at the hearing is under a publication ban but it can be reported that a shackled Jacques “Porkchop” Rouschop, 43, was escorted by police back to the notorious Innes Road jail.

Rouschop, suffering from umbilical hernia, has long complained to the Citizen about inadequate medical treatment at the overcrowded jail, where labour unrest is simmering. He told the Citizen earlier this year that his surgeon said he had to lose weight before he could operate.

It’s hard to know his exact weight because the scale at the jail doesn’t go high enough. On any given month, he weighs between 350-400 pounds, or the average weight of an adult female grizzly bear.

He’s also complained that it’s hard to exercise at the jail, where lockdowns have become routine, and that he has no say in his three squares a day — including what some inmates describe as the “mushy frozen salmon.”

Rouschop, who doesn’t drink or do drugs, is addicted to two things: gambling and food. His favourite spot at the Lac Leamy casino is the blackjack table, where he said he once played into the night alongside the charismatic Father Joe Leclair and the late, legendary broadcaster and charity king Max Keeping. 

Rouschop played the table so much that all of his food was on the house. 

Detectives working the Amy Paul homicide executed a search of Rouschop’s home a month after the 27-year-old sex-trade worker’s body was found in a farmer’s field south of town on Sept. 17, 2013. The police theory is secret because the search warrant remains sealed, but as first reported in 2014, the Citizen has learned that detectives were searching for three pieces of key evidence: “grey cellular flip phone, female shoes believed to belong to Amy Paul, female pants believed to belong to Amy Paul.”

It should be noted that Rouschop, a wheelman for a Vanier booster (commercial thief), has not been charged with any crime related to the unsolved killing of Amy Paul. Nor has anyone else.

Rouschop remains in jail, awaiting trial on two counts of aggravated sexual assault and choking. Both complainants are sex-trade workers whose identities are shielded by a publication ban.