Here's a story of how friendship can sour and turn into brutality on the turn of a dime.Wazken Karamanoukian and brothers Agop and Mouchegh Bamboukian were buddies here in Montreal
Wazken's future relationship with the brothers, however, took a very negative turn somewhere along the line.
He announced that he was moving to Australia and sold his car.
So he took the $9,500 he got for his wheels and gave it to Agop's wife, who promised to return it in crisp $1,000 bills.
A couple of months later he went to fetch it at a BBQ the brothers invited him to.
But instead, they took a detour to a parking lot in St. Laurent and beat him, accusing him of having had a passionate love affair with Agop's wife.
Wazken suffered a fractures to his head, his cheek and jaw, specifically and required many weeks of hospitalization.
Meanwhile a third brother, Viken, went to shake down the injured man for money he seemed to think that was taken from the clan.
That money was found soon after, however and the three sheepishly apologized to the man that they just so badly beaten.
But the injury left Wazken badly shaken and his personality had changed.
The two brothers received just two years probation and minor fines on Feb. 18, 2000.
But Wazken, who had previously been a hard-working mechanic, was no longer able to ply his trade, and opted to sue his attackers.
On Tuesday judge Sylviane Borenstein ordered the two brothers to pay the man they had beaten up $138,000 in compensation.