Quebec man, 81, to serve at least 10 years for killing ailing wife ‘out of love’

An 81-year-old Quebec antheral who says helium ended his ailing wife’s beingness retired of emotion and compassion was sentenced Friday to service astatine slightest 10 and a fractional years successful situation for murder.

Gilles Brassard told reporters connected the mode into the courtroom that helium couldn’t basal watching his woman of 50 years deteriorate from Alzheimer’s disease.

Brassard pleaded blameworthy past week to second-degree execution successful the September 2023 strangling decease of Thérèse Brassard-Lévesque astatine a attraction location successful Terrebonne, northbound of Montreal.

The tribunal heard that it took Brassard respective attempts to strangle his woman with a enactment successful an battle that was caught connected camera, earlier helium swallowed medicine successful a termination attempt.

Testimony from members of the couple’s household work successful tribunal painted Brassard arsenic a loving hubby and father, who tried to attraction for his woman arsenic agelong arsenic helium could earlier she became excessively sick and assertive to unrecorded astatine home.

Second-degree execution carries an automatic condemnation of beingness successful prison, with a mandatory minimum of 10 years earlier an offender tin use for parole.