Overview

• The 50-year-old was formally charged Monday with spousal murder, corpse tampering and crime scene modification and placed in pretrial detention at Brest Prison
• He was found dead in his cell just hours after his remand, and prosecutor adjoint Emmanuel Phelippeau says the suicide hypothesis is favored
• Defense lawyer Me David Pavec called for an administrative inquiry into custodial procedures and oversight in the wake of the death
• During garde à vue the suspect admitted killing his 46-year-old partner after a dispute and led investigators to her body in a Pluguffan woods
• Initial investigations recovered the victim’s partially burned personal effects at their Quimper residence and revealed the suspect had a prior 2021 domestic violence conviction with a contact ban