After three days of trial at the Assizes of Orne for the murder of Laura Tavares, Evan Jean was sentenced to 28 years in prison, with a security sentence of 18 years. A young man portrayed as violent, possessive and impulsive, he had killed his ex-partner with a hammer and knife in January 2021.
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“What I did was inhumane, I am sincerely sorry for the victim’s family“. This is the only moment when Evan Jean’s armour cracked during the three days of his trial at the Orne Assizes for the murder of Laura Tavares, his ex-partner.
In court, he tried on Tuesday, September 17, to explain his madness. In court, he said that on that fateful January 5, he went to his ex-partner’s apartment.to discuss“, which she then confided in him that she had had an abortion a few months earlier when she was pregnant with him. A false version according to the lawyers for the civil party.
He goes on to explain that the news makes him furious, “angry“. Evan Jean then details his exit from the apartment, then his return a few moments later armed with a hammer and a knife. This first weapon, he would have found it”in the lobby of the building”He then told the Court: “I threw myself at her like an animal.“.
He then hits her on the head with the hammer, then stabs her fatally on the left side of the chest. However, the Court confronts him with the contradictions in his story. In particular, regarding the murder weapons, because certain elements and testimonies tend to show that the hammer was not at the scene.
One of the family’s lawyers also notes that Evan Jean did not mention the argument that allegedly provoked his actions until very late in the investigation.Certain chronological elements demonstrate to us that all this is nothing but an invention on the part of the accused.”comments Me Marand Gombar, adding that according to him, Evan Jean “used this argument which may be effective in a criminal trial, but which is clearly a false argument“.
For this femicide, the accused was facing life imprisonment, but this Wednesday, the attorney general only requested 30 years of criminal imprisonment, accompanied by a security sentence of 20 years.Laura was a victim of the barbarity, the murderous rage of Evan Jean”. She also retains the premeditation of the act because “he showed up at his home already armed, and that he knew his victim’s habits and schedules. Possessive and jealous, he was determined to destroy Laura Tavares until the end,” she concludes.
However, the verdict was less severe, since Evan Jean was sentenced to 28 years of criminal imprisonment, with a security sentence of just over 18 years. He was subjected to 15 years of socio-judicial monitoring, as well as a ban on appearing in Alençon. In addition, upon his release from prison, he will not be allowed to own a weapon or a hunting license for 15 years.
