Guerric Jehanno sentenced to 30 years in prison for rape and murder

The jurors of the Montauban Assize Court delivered their verdict during the night from Friday to Saturday. The young woman had been missing since June 18, 2013. Her body was never found.

A new conviction, more than ten years after the disappearance of Amandine Estrabaud. Guerric Jehanno, the main suspect in this case, was sentenced to 30 years of criminal imprisonment for rape and murder, on the night of Friday January 26 to Saturday January 27, following a third trial in Montauban (Tarn-et- Garonne). A sentence consistent with that requested by the attorney general during this third trial which began on Monday.

Guerric Jehanno, a mason now aged 35, was sentenced to 30 years of criminal imprisonment in 2020 by the Tarn Assize Court, a sentence subsequently confirmed on appeal. This decision was annulled in 2022 by the Court of Cassation for procedural defects.

The victim’s body was never found

Knowing the victim and presenting an alibi which did not hold up according to the prosecution, he was the only suspect profile to have been retained during the three-year investigation into the disappearance of Amandine Estrabaud on June 18, 2013 in Tarn. The body of the young woman, then aged 30, was never found.

After leaving the Castres high school (Tarn) where she worked as a supervisor, to walk to her home in Rocquecourbe, the young woman was seen in front of her home by a neighbor, while she was getting out of a white van. with a man. That day, Guerric Jehanno, who lived with his mother in the same village in Tarn, was working on a construction site in Roquecourbe. The work attire and vehicle of the company he worked for were similar to those seen by Amandine’s neighbor.

In addition, the alibi of the young man, who had claimed to have played on the Playstation the entire evening during which Amandine disappeared, did not hold up. The console data indicated that the night of the disappearance was the only one that week that he hadn’t turned it on.