Former Canadiens superstar Guy Lafleur told a court Tuesday that he felt horrible and humiliated after being served with an arrest warrant in 2008.
Lafleur took the stand for the first time in the legal proceedings he initiated against the Crown and Montreal police.
He is seeking more than $2 million for what he claims was an unjustified and exaggerated arrest when the Crown deemed he had given contradictory testimony in 2007 during criminal proceedings for his son Mark Lafleur.
Guy Lafleur, 63, was found guilty in 2009 before the conviction was overturned on appeal a year later.
The hockey giant testified in Quebec Superior Court that his wife lost her voice and stayed in bed for six months after being devastated by his arrest in 2008.
Lafleur told Judge Andre Wery a police officer threatened to arrest him in front of his neighbours.
