the request for review of the person sentenced to life imprisonment for a quadruple murder, in Sarthe in 1994, transmitted to the Court of Review

The investigating committee announced, Thursday, January 23, that the request for review by Dany Leprince, who wishes to obtain the annulment of his life sentence for the murders of his brother, his sister-in-law and two of his nieces in 1994 in Sarthe, is transmitted to the Court of Revision.

The commission relied on two new or unknown facts, namely the statements of Dany Leprince’s eldest daughter, Célia, and the credibility given at the time to the comments of Solène, 2 years old and the only survivor of the killing, to justify the admissibility of this request, according to the statements of the president of this commission during a public hearing.

For justice, “the butcher of Sarthe” one evening, massacred with a chopper his brother, his sister-in-law, their two daughters aged 6 and 10, on September 4, 1994. On December 12, the five magistrates of the investigating commission of the review court and review of criminal convictions were to hear him one last time, behind closed doors, as part of a review procedure started on 1^is March 2021, to decide whether to go further.

After three years of investigation, these magistrates of the Court of Cassation considered that there was reason to transmit the file to the court of review, which will in turn judge whether there is any doubt about the guilt of the convicted person and whether a new trial should be held. Dany Leprince has already experienced the horrors of this wait for the first time: a first commission was convinced of his innocence and ruled in 2010 that a new trial was necessary, to the point of having released him from prison. The review court rejected the request a year later and reincarcerated him.