An 18-year-old young man was sentenced to fourteen years in prison on Friday April 21 for the 2020 stabbing murder of his stepmother. The Advocate General had requested a lower sentence.
It’s a news item that had marked the city of Millau a little over two years ago. As there can be a certain number of them in France: the disappearance then the discovery of the bodies of Leslie and Kévin or this husband who dismembered his wife… But it is always different when it affects a young person. He had barely 16 years old when the facts took place. In 2020, the teenager had stabbed his mother-in-law to death with around 30 stab woundsaccording to the findings of the coroner.
Now 18, he was sentenced this Friday, April 21 to fourteen years’ imprisonment by the assize court for minors from Aveyron. A greater sentence than that required by the general counsel, Mathilde Jayais, who had asked for ten years in prison. The 39-year-old woman’s blood-covered body was discovered by police, alerted by a neighbor who heard screams and a thud.
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The lawyers pleaded the cause of the young man
Arrested, the teenager had confessed to the murderthen explained that he had been the victim of “regular bullying and admonitions” from his mother-in-law. The latter’s lawyers, Lauriane Noto de la Perche and Valérie Bentivegna, had noted that this tragedy could have been avoided if the teenager had been placed in foster care, as he had requested. According to his lawyers, “he couldn’t take it anymore”. Not enough to find excuses for him, since he was therefore sentenced to fourteen years in prison. taken into custody, the young man is undergoing training from the prison and would now like to become a canine educator, explained his lawyers. The Noon Dispatch recalled that in 2022, a college of psychiatric and psychological experts had concluded on a “risk of reiteration of the facts almost zero and with an equally low dangerousness”.