LAVAL, Que. — An 81-year-old Quebec man said Friday he killed his ailing wife out of love and compassion, as he was sentenced to serve at least 10 years and six months in prison for her murder.
Gilles Brassard told reporters on the way into the courtroom in a Montreal suburb that he couldn’t stand watching his wife of more than 50 years deteriorate from Alzheimer's disease.
The court heard that it took Brassard several attempts to strangle his wife with a rope in an assault that was caught on camera, before he swallowed medication in a suicide attempt. "I told myself, 'we've made it to 80, both of us, we've done enough, we'll leave this place and go to a better world,'" he said.
Brassard was surrounded by members of his family, and wiped away tears as the judge read excerpts of the letters of support from his children and grandchildren. Several members of his family sobbed as he was led away to begin his sentence. While inevitable given the guilty plea, Elfriede Duclervil said the penalty amounted to a death sentence for her elderly client and served no benefit to society.
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