In an extremely rare decision, the Court of Review on Thursday July 2 annulled the life prison sentence of Dany Leprince and ordered that he be retried for a quadruple murder in Sarthe in 1994, a twist in this famous criminal case.
“The Court of Revision and Re-examination judges that two of the elements likely to have been taken into account by the Assize Court are weakened by elements unknown to the jurisdiction, which is likely to give rise to doubt about the guilt of Dany Leprince,” declared its president Nicolas Bonnal, a decision welcomed with tears in his eyes by Dany Leprince, 69, who fell into the arms of his loved ones.
Now free after 18 years behind bars, the former employee of a butchery factory proclaims his innocence of the murders in 1994 of his brother, his sister-in-law and two of their daughters in their house in Thorigné-sur-Dué, neighboring his own.
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