Monique Olivier, 75, ought to serve a minimal of 20 years behind bars, the courtroom dominated.

Paris:

A French courtroom on Tuesday sentenced the ex-wife of serial killer Michel Fourniret to life in jail for her position in three murders by her former husband.

After 10 hours of deliberations, Monique Olivier was convicted of complicity within the murders by Fourniret of two younger ladies courting again many years, together with 20-year-old British pupil Joanna Parrish and a nine-year-old lady.

Olivier, 75, ought to serve a minimal of 20 years behind bars, the courtroom dominated.

She was convicted of taking part in a task within the abduction, sequestration and homicide of Parrish and 18-year-old Marie-Angele Domece in 1988, aggravated by her position within the tried rape of Domece and the rape of Parrish by Fourniret.

She was additionally convicted of taking part in a task within the 2003 abduction, sequestration and homicide of nine-year-old Estelle Mouzin, whose physique has by no means been discovered regardless of intensive searches.

Fourniret died in 2021 aged 79 earlier than he might be dropped at trial for the three killings, that means the trial of Olivier is the final likelihood for victims’ households to search out justice.

Her former husband confessed to 11 murders earlier than he died, however reviews have instructed there may have been as much as two dozen extra.

Olivier is already serving a life sentence issued in 2008 for complicity in 4 kidnappings and murders dedicated by Fourniret. A decade later she was sentenced to an additional 20 years for complicity in one other homicide.

Domece’s stays have additionally by no means been discovered, whereas Parrish’s bare physique was recovered from the Yonne river within the French division of the identical identify. She had been crushed, drugged and raped.

“He used me,” Olivier stated about her husband on the trial’s opening day. The couple divorced in 2010.

Prosecutors argued that Fourniret couldn’t have killed so simply with out her.

Olivier and Fourniret collectively had one son, Selim Olivier, who gave proof on the trial final week, urging his mom to inform the courtroom every little thing she knew.

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