Overview
- Judges found the 56-year-old guilty of attempted murder and dangerous bodily harm for repeatedly lacing family meals with plant toxins.
- In December 2024 he served a pizza contaminated with blue monkshood, sending his wife and son to hospital with life-threatening arrhythmias, and his wife later required a pacemaker.
- Prosecutors alleged seven attacks across 2023 and 2024, saying he planned to free himself to live with a woman he met online in 2022.
- The defendant confessed during the trial, and the sentence landed between the prosecution’s request for 12 years and 9 months and the defense’s plea for under ten years.
- He initially presented himself as a caring husband, fled to France, and has been held in pretrial detention since January 2025.