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French court sentences 93 year-old for murder

Marcel Guillot was given a ten-year prison sentence for battering to death an 82 year-old woman who refused his amorous advances.

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France's eldest detainee was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Friday for having killed an 82-year-old woman who spurned his advances and whose battered body was found in a stream, reports The Straits Times.

A court in the north-eastern city of Reims found Marcel Guillot, a 93-year-old man nicknamed 'Grandfather Marcel', guilty of "death blows on a vulnerable person with premeditation."

The body of Nicole El Dib was found in December 2011 in a stream that crossed her property near the village of Saint-Gilles, carrying traces of violent blows and strangling.

Read more of this AFP report published by The Straits Times.