Nordahl Lelandais sentenced to one year in prison for sexual assault on one of his cousins

Nordahl Lelandais was sentenced, Friday, January 12 by the Charleville-Mézières court (Ardennes), to one year of imprisonment for the sexual assault in 2017 of one of his little cousins, then aged 14. This sentence is lower than the requirements of the prosecution, which had requested two years in prison against the 40-year-old former dog handler during the trial in November. At his trial, he denied the facts.

The facts judged date back to March 16, 2017. The teenager claims to have been touched on the buttocks and chest, according to the president of the court. The defendant then allegedly threatened to kill one of his second cousins ​​if she said anything.

Already convicted for the murders of little Maëlys and Corporal Arthur Noyer

Nordahl Lelandais has already been sentenced in 2022 to life imprisonment, with a security sentence of 22 years, for the kidnapping and murder of little Maëlys in August 2017. In 2020, he was also sentenced to 20 years of criminal imprisonment, with a two-thirds security period, for the murder of Corporal Arthur Noyer in 2017.