The Loire-Atlantique Assize Court delivered its verdict at 10:45 p.m. this Wednesday, July 7. Hubert Caouissin was sentenced to 30 years in prison, and Lydie Troadec, to three years of imprisonment including one year of probation with compulsory care. She was imprisoned after the hearing. All the experts had concluded that Hubert Caouissin’s discernment had been impaired, which the court accepted and which allowed him to benefit from a reduction in the sentence. “We were heard, immediately reacted his lawyer Thierry Fillion. This verdict, without pronounced security penalty, is unexpected. The alteration was not retained for Lydie Troadec.
The deliberation fell more than seven hours after the last speech by Hubert Caouissin and Lydie Troadec, around 3 p.m. The one who killed his in-laws in 2017 in Orvault, apologized for the first time to the civil parties after four years of investigation and almost three weeks of trial: “I very much regret what happened at Orvault, I regret what happened afterwards. “ He asked forgiveness from all his victims, one after the other: “I ask Sébastien’s forgiveness, I ask Charlotte’s forgiveness, I ask Brigitte’s forgiveness, I ask Pascal’s forgiveness. “
“An ordinary man”
President Karine Laborde also questioned Lydie Troadec: “Do you have anything to add? “ « Non », she replied. Masters Loïc Cabioch and Alexis Crestin, in support of the interests of Lydie Troadec, prosecuted for “concealment of corpses” and “modification of the inventory of a crime”, had argued the need for her to be able to deal with their son Jean (assumed name).
This verdict therefore comes to close an extraordinary story in which, often, fear has given way to horror. Resentment, to resentment. Jealousy, hatred. Feelings that collided again during the trial.
The debates brought to light, and in detail, how Hubert Caouissin, after having transported them to his farm in Pont-de-Buis (Finistère), went after the bodies.
On the defense side, Patrick Larvor, one of Hubert Caouissin’s two lawyers, had presented him as “An ordinary man”. His colleague Thierry Fillion recounted his first meeting with “This scared, lost man”, in spring 2017: “I never saw in this person that I had in front of me, an assassin, a murderer, a monster. Never. “
Obsessed by this hypothetical hoard of gold which did not, in reality, exist, Hubert Caouissin entered “A mental cage, a cage of delirium”.
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