Incarcerated since March, Jérôme Gaillard had confessed to having killed his wife.
He had previously commissioned Georgian hired killers to execute Magali Blandin, against a sum of 20,000 euros, loaned by his parents.
The husband of Magali Blandin, who had admitted the murder of his wife near Rennes last February, committed suicide in prison, we learned Monday from a source close to the case. The circumstances of the death of Jérôme Gaillard, which occurred in the night from Sunday to Monday in the prison of Vézin-le-Coquet, were not specified to AFP while
the Parisian
announces that the 45-year-old man, "Strongly depressed since his incarceration", would have hanged himself.
Indicted on March 21, Jérôme Gaillard was accused of having killed his wife, a 42-year-old specialist educator, on February 11.
During his police custody, he confessed to having hit Magali Blandin, from whom he was separated, with a baseball bat in Montfort-sur-Meu (Ille-et-Vilaine) before getting rid of the body.
The body was found forty days after the murder in a wooded area of Boisgervilly, not far from the home of the main suspect.
Parents indicted
The investigation also revealed that the husband had previously tried to commission Georgian contract killers to execute his wife for a sum of 20,000 euros.
His parents, Jean and Monique Gaillard, were indicted for attempted aiding and abetting murder by spouse.
They admitted to having been informed of the criminal project.
The couple's four children had been placed earlier.
"He couldn't stand her leaving him," his lawyer had said at the time of his imprisonment.
The victim had filed a complaint for domestic violence a few months before being killed.
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