Guerric Jehanno, main suspect in the case of the disappearance, more than ten years ago, of Amandine Estrabaud, was sentenced to 30 years of criminal imprisonment for rape and murder, Friday, following a third trial in Montauban.
“That's it, it's gone, 30 years
,” said Pierre Debuisson, the family's lawyer, to AFP on the night of Friday to Saturday when the verdict was announced.
This was the sentence requested by the Advocate General of the Montauban Assize Court, during this third trial which began on Monday.
Guerric Jehanno, a mason aged 35 today, was sentenced to 30 years of criminal imprisonment in 2020 by the Tarn Assize Court, subsequently confirmed on appeal.
This decision was annulled in 2022 by the Court of Cassation for procedural defects.
Knowing the victim and presenting an alibi which did not hold up according to the prosecution, he was the only suspect profile to have been retained during the three-year investigation into the disappearance of Amandine Estrabaud, 30, on June 18, 2013 in the Tarn.
His body has never been found.
An alibi that didn't hold up
After leaving the Castres high school where she worked as a supervisor, to walk to her home in Rocquecourbe, the young woman was seen in front of her home, by a neighbor, as she got out of a white van with a man.
That day, Guerric Jehanno, who lived with his mother in the same village in Tarn, was working on a construction site in Roquecourbe.
The work attire and vehicle of the company he worked for were similar to those seen by Amandine's neighbor.
In addition, the alibi of the young man who had claimed to have played on the Playstation the entire evening when Amandine disappeared did not hold up.
The console data indicated that the evening of the disappearance was the only one of the week that he did not turn it on.
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After being placed in police custody in 2014 and released without any charges, Guerric Jehanno was indicted for kidnapping and sequestration and placed in pre-trial detention in April 2016.
Fellow prisoners then claimed that he had described to them the way in which he would have raped and killed a woman from his village, even drawing a plan where the first name
“Amandine”
was written , detailing the place where he would have buried the body.
He will then explain to investigators that these plans designated mushroom picking and fishing locations.