It took several months of a “meticulous” investigation for the victim is identified And that his alleged murderer be arrested. A 28 -year -old admitted to having killed and dropped Jonathan, 39 years old in the Orne, says Joël Garrigue, public prosecutor of Caen, confirming information from information France Bleu.
In September 2023, Jonathan Lecomte’s family reported his disappearance. According to the call for witnesses to the police, the thirties, shaved skull, blue eyes, tattooed in the neck and straight wrist had been seen for the last time in Caen. The disappeared is known to move with a cane.
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A little less than a year later, on July 28, 2024, a leg was discovered in the Orne canal, at the level of Blainville-sur-Orne (Calvados). The next day, it is another leg, which is discovered in this watercourse which links the Orne to the sea. Very quickly, continues the prosecution of Caen, the experts of the Criminal Research Institute of the National Gendarmerie (IRCGN) identify the victim: it is Jonathan Lecomte, whose body was cut “using a mechanical tool”, retraces the prosecutor.
“Murder then butcher”
In January 2025, a judicial investigation for murder was open and the author of the victim’s “murder and but ducing” was identified. It was Monday that this man is arrested. The 28 -year -old, the respondent recognizes the gendarmes having put Jonathan to death.
According to his story delivered to investigators during a September 2023 evening, during which the two men drink a lot and consume drugs, Jonathan Lecomte is killed. The respondent would then have rolled the body in a blanket and a tent canvas and would have “kept the corpse for several months on the balcony of his apartment”.
Before deciding to get rid of it “by cutting it into a dozen songs using a saw”. In a first attempted concealment, the alleged perpetrator tries to “immerse” the two legs of his victim. These are the members found in July 2024 in the Blainville canal.
Pieces of body in her mother’s garden
Perhaps the suspect was not convinced by this operating mode? Other parts of the body are found buried in the garden of his mother’s house, in Blainville-sur-Orne, a handful of kilometers north east of Caen: “The rest of the body being hidden at the bottom of this garden in the open air”, without the knowledge of the sea. Tuesday, the whole body of the deceased was reconstituted by the investigators, specifies the prosecutor of the Republic of Caen.
The suspect was presented this Wednesday to an investigating judge on Wednesday, with a view to his indictment of the murder leader, then to the liberty and detention judge who will have to decide his placement in pre -trial detention.
