While he has been proclaiming his innocence for 30 years, will Dany Leprince's cries finally be heard by the courts? Or will his hopes of rehabilitation be, once again, swept away? This January 23, before the investigating committee of the Court of Revision, it is double or nothing for Dany Leprince, 68 years old, who wants to have her life sentence annulled for the murders of her brother, her sister-in-law and her two nieces methodically murdered at home with knives, in 1994, in Thorigné-sur-Dué (Sarthe). Fifty-six stab wounds in total. Only the youngest of the family, Solène, was found alive, hidden in her room.
After three years of investigation, the five magistrates of the Court of Cassation must decide this Thursday whether or not there is reason to transmit the file to the Court of Review for a new trial. In the event of refusal, it would be a return to square one for the man whom the media have nicknamed “the butcher of Sarthe”. However, transmission to the Court of Review would not automatically be synonymous with annulment of his conviction. Already, in 2010, a previous investigating committee, convinced of the innocence of the convicted person, had considered that a new trial was necessary, to the point of releasing him from prison. But the Court of Review ultimately rejected the request and reincarcerated Dany Leprince.
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