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Frenchman Gets 25-Year Jail Term For Killing Wife, Burning Body
NOVEMBER 21, 2020
A French court, on Saturday, sentenced Jonathann Daval to 25 years in prison for killing his wife, Alexia and then burning her body in a case that shocked the country.
The 36-year-old was impassive as the verdict was read out. Daval finally confessed to beating his wife to death and burning her body in the woods after initially reporting her missing.
BBC reports that prosecutors said the case was “an almost perfect domestic crime”, and had called for a life sentence.
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Alexia Daval was a 29-year-old banker. Her husband reported her missing in October 2017, saying she had not returned from a run.
Her body was found two days later, partly burnt and covered by branches in a forest far from her usual jogging route.
Her death inspired a march of 10,000 people in the town of Gray. Women also honoured the jogger with symbolic runs in cities across France.
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