Sleeve. He goes to his mother-in-law and hits his ex-wife, he is sentenced

A 40-year-old man, presented to the Coutances court (Manche) for immediate appearance on Thursday March 28, 2024, had requested time to prepare his defense. The magistrates had decided to his incarceration pending the hearing of Monday April 22, 2024, at which the man appeared under escort.

He is accused of having gone on the evening of Monday March 25, 2024 at the home of his mother-in-law, who has hosted his wife since their separation in September 2023, to have hit his wife with a knifeto have him punched and to have jostled the mother who intervened.

The wife, for a wound of 3 cm on the scalp and hematomas, had a 3-day ITTthe mother-in-law who fell got an 8-day ITT.

Knife or no knife?

In the box, the man recognizes the blowsbut denies having used a knife.

He explains that he had need the family record book and passports of the couple’s two children for resolve an administrative problemand that his wife refused to give them back to him.

” I am irritated, I was fatigue, I sincerely regret and I present my apologies,” he repeated.

But he claims not to have taken a knifehe thinks that his wife may have injured herself by falling against a radiator.

While the representative of the prosecution requires a sentence of 10 months in prisonthe defense lawyer denounces the inadequacies of the investigationthe police did not go there until the next day and the traces of blood had been cleaned up, the knife was not found.

The court sentenced this man with a clean criminal record, who works for 10 years in the same establishmentat a penalty of 18 months in prison including 6 with a probationary suspension and to pay €3,800 to the victims for all their damages. The firm part of the sentence will be carried out at home with an electronic bracelet.

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