XPost: uk.politics.misc, uk.legal, alt.politics.uk
From: burfordTjustice@tues.uk
On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 11:18:21 -0400
burfordTjustice wrote:
> A British man was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a French court
> on Friday for the horrific 2013 murder of a young mother out jogging.
>
> The court in the southern city of Nīmes also ruled that 36-year-old
> Robert Plant should not be eligible for parole for 20 years.
>
> Plant was formally charged in 2013 for the murder of 34-year-old
> Jouda Zammit, whose partially clothed body was found on January 24 of
> that year. She went missing after going jogging.
>
> Her throat had been slit and her body and face disfigured with stones
> and a cutter.
>
> Plant lived with his mother just yards from where the woman's body
> was found.
>
> Nimes prosecutor Stephane Bertrand had sought a life term for Plant,
> dismissing arguments that he "had lost contact with reality" on the
> day of the murder.
>
> Plant had been described by neighbours as "peaceful" but Bertrand
> described him as a "pervert" and "not a madman" who had "committed a
> particularly brutal crime."
>
> The victim had three children who are now aged 14, 11 and seven.
>
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