“I suffered a lot of mental and physical abuse. It’s a monster. He has no heart, no feeling. I was manipulated by this man. He controlled all my trips, how I dressed…
“I suffered a lot of mental and physical abuse. It’s a monster. He has no heart, no feeling. I was manipulated by this man. He controlled all my trips, how I dressed, I had no more friends, no more family. “In a slender voice, Carole (1), the former companion of Alain Guelette, now 33 years old, looks back on these marital years, stopped by the arrest of the fifty-year-old in June 2019, in Villeréal. Like the day before, the man did not recognize the violence or the rape of which she accuses him.
The couple, at first illegitimate, is tied while Carole is employed as a cleaning lady at the home of Alain Guelette, who lives with a seriously ill woman. The latter dies a short time later. “My mother was dying and I saw him jostle her as she came between us,” says the defendant’s ex-stepdaughter. “I was scared for my life, he told me he was going to shoot us all. He’s a terrible man. »
Disclaimers
The portrait of an angry man, prey to excessive violence, is swept away by the principal concerned. He refutes the numerous episodes of beatings recounted by Carole. Alain Guelette still denies marital rape, acme of yet another argument, while he had still drunk a lot. “If, as he claims, the sexual relationship went well, why is his partner going to sleep in his son’s room? “Asks the Advocate General, Corinne Chateigner, relying on the conclusions of the expert: “He cannot access his faults, nor take a critical look at what he is accused of”.
“I’m still afraid of him. Let him kill me when he gets out of prison. He destroyed me. Even if I try to move forward, I fail”, reveals Carole who answers in the negative when Mand Dutin asks her about other forced sex.
After three and a half hours of deliberation, Alain Guelette was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment by the Assize Court of Lot-et-Garonne.
(1) The first name has been changed.