French Woman Who Burned Grandfather Alive Faces Life Sentence
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Emilie Gutierrez is a judge on appeal for killing her grandfather by burning her room. She was sentenced in October 2024 to five years' suspended imprisonment.
At first instance, Emilie G. had been sentenced to five years suspended. The prosecution, for its part, had denounced a "selfish and cruel act".
French woman who burned grandfather alive faces life sentence
A woman found guilty of killing her bedridden grandfather by setting fire to his mattress went back on trial in France Monday, facing life behind bars after prosecutors appealed a previous sentence they deemed too lenient.The 95-year-old victim was found dead from severe burns and smoke inhalation in his bed in August 2020.Emilie G., 33,...
In August 2020, in Saint-Laurent-de-Mure, a young woman had killed her grabatary grandfather by setting fire to her bed. Sentenced to a suspended sentence in 2024 by the court d'assizes du Rhône, she was rejudged from this Monday.
The appeal trial of 33-year-old Émilie Gutierrez opens in front of the Ain assizes this Monday. The accused has always claimed to have wanted, in October 2020, to shorten the sufferings of her 95-year-old grandfather whom she loved.


Emilie G, 33 years old, sentenced to five years of suspension at first instance, acted to "absorb the sufferings of a man "at the end of his life" with whom she was very close and who asked to "go away", said her family in choir. "If my daughter did this, it's because she loved him more than I did," explained
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