She offered no explanation or expressed any regret throughout the trial.
A 52-year-old woman was sentenced Tuesday by the Morbihan Assize Court to life imprisonment for the murder of her nine-year-old son, reports
Le Télégramme
.
The Advocate General had requested a sentence of between 25 and 30 years.
The facts took place on July 28, 2017. That day, Nathan was found dead by his father in Elven's family home near Vannes.
The child had been stabbed to the throat with a knife.
Injured in the neck and wrists after attempting to kill herself, her mother was also lying next to her.
Four sleeping pills to his son before taking action
Arriving at the scene of the tragedy, the investigators had discovered a letter written by the latter in which she explained that she had administered four sleeping pills to her son so that he did not suffer.
At the time of the act, the mother was in the process of separation from her husband.
She reportedly refused to have custody of the boy entrusted to the father.
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