Three people, including the wife and son of the victim, were sentenced Friday, December 17 before the assizes of Dijon to sentences of up to 20 years of criminal imprisonment for the murder of a sexagenarian "
alcoholic and domestic torturer
", in 2018.
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Anthony Busson, the victim's son, and a friend, Jordan Bridot, were sentenced to 20 years in prison, and the wife, Jocelyne Busson, at 13. Amandine Tessa, wife of the son prosecuted for complicity, was acquitted. Advocate General Philippe Chassaigne had denounced in his requisitions a "
conspiracy to put Daniel Busson to death
" on August 18, 2018, killed by 14 stab wounds in Dijon at the age of 67. Against the wife Jocelyne Busson, "
soul of the plot and its instigator
", he had required 15 years, and 20 years against "
the executioners
", Anthony Busson and Jordan Bridot. And finally, 4 years including a firm, against the "
little hand
", Amandine Tessa.
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Jordan Bridot had confessed to the murderous stab wounds immediately after the murder.
He had acted at the request of Anthony, who had even supplied the knife.
The two accomplices had been "
recruited
", according to the attorney general, by Jocelyne, the wife, who wanted to put an end to her torments at the hands of a husband described as "
alcoholic and domestic executioner
".
Anthony Busson's lawyer, Pierre-Vincent Connault, pleaded for leniency, recalling that this son had been "
the result of a crime
", or the rape of his mother by Daniel Busson.