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PARIS — The highest court in France has ruled that the man who killed a Jewish woman in 2017 in an anti-Semitic frenzy cannot stand trial because he was in a state of acute mental delirium brought on by his consumption of cannabis.

Kobili Traoré, who has admitted to the killing and is in a psychiatric institution, beat Sarah Halimi, 65, before throwing her out the window of her Paris apartment to cries of “Allahu akbar,” or God is great, and “I killed the devil.”

Mr. Traoré, who was 27 at the time, had been troubled by Ms. Halimi’s mezuza, which “amplified the frantic outburst of hate,” according to one psychiatric report.

The verdict, more than four years after the killing, ended judicial proceedings in France for the case. The verdict came after a lower-court ruling rejected a trial, and the Halimi family appealed. President Emmanuel Macron made an unusual personal intervention by calling for the case to have its day in court. Outrage in the large French Jewish community has accompanied the long failure to try Mr. Traoré.

Francis Kalifat, the president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France, said, “From now on in our country, we can torture and kill Jews with complete impunity.”

Francis Szpiner, a lawyer for Ms. Halimi’s children, said it was “troubling and unjust” that the law fails to take account of “the origin of the mental state” behind the crime — in this case, Mr. Traoré’s drug use.

The highest court, known as the Court of Cassation, does not re-litigate the facts of a case. It only verifies that lower courts have correctly applied the law.

In its ruling, the court noted that under French law, “a person is not criminally responsible if suffering, at the time of the event, from psychic or neuropsychic disturbance that has eliminated all discernment or control” over the acts.

The court said the law, as currently written, does not distinguish between the reasons for that person’s condition. Even someone who, like Mr. Traoré, enters a delirious state because of voluntary drug use cannot be tried.

“The judge cannot distinguish where the legislator has chosen not to make a distinction,” the court said in a statement.

But Emmanuel Piwnica, another lawyer for the Halimi family, argued that the law was aimed at psychiatric disturbance, “not the consumption of narcotics or alcohol.” Judges should recognize, she said, that “the use of narcotics cannot be the basis for arguing penal irresponsibility.” Or, in other words, being high is no basis for a plea of insanity.

Mr. Traoré, a neighbor of Ms. Halimi, was an immigrant from Mali. He was a drug dealer and a heavy pot smoker, the criminal investigation found. He pushed Ms. Halimi, a retired physician and mother of three, from a third-floor window in the Belleville district of Paris. It remains unclear whether she was already dead from his brutal beating.

French prosecutors initially hesitated to call the crime anti-Semitic, another source of anger in a Jewish community used to circumlocutions when it comes to crimes against them.

Almost a year after Ms. Halimi was killed, a Holocaust survivor, Mireille Knoll was stabbed to death in her Paris apartment in what the prosecutor’s office called a killing tied to the “victim’s membership, real or supposed, of a particular religion.” In this case, the nature of the killing — a hate crime — was quickly recognized.

French Jews have been repeatedly targeted by jihadists over the past decade. In 2012, an Islamist gunman, Mohammed Merah, shot dead three children and a teacher at a Jewish school in the southern city of Toulouse. In 2015, Amedy Coulibaly identified customers as Jews at a kosher Paris supermarket before killing four of them. He declared he was murdering the people he hated most in the world: “the Jews and the French.”

Mr. Macron, sensitive to anger in the Jewish community at lone-wolf explanations of the violence, and at hesitation in some French media to use the words “anti-Semitic” in describing the crimes, said in January last year that the Halimi case “needs a trial.” He was widely rebuked for failing to respect the independence of the justice system.

Criticism has mounted over the law that has allowed Mr. Traoré to avoid trial. “It is possible to consider that the current law is unsatisfactory,” said Sandrine Zientara, one of the public prosecutors in the case. “Its application has led here to complete impunity.”

The outcome in the Halimi case, she said, had been met by “a great deal of incomprehension.”

Dozens of senators, reacting to the case, have proposed a revision of the law to the effect that psychic disturbance cannot exonerate someone whose troubled mental state is induced by a narcotic.

Of three psychiatric reports on Mr. Traoré, two said he could not appear in court because his capacity for discernment at the time of the crime had been “eliminated” by his delirious mental state. The third, by Daniel Zagury, said his mental state had only been “altered” and so he could be tried.

“The crime of Mr. Traoré is a frenzied, anti-Semitic act,” Mr. Zagury wrote.

Shimon Samuels, the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s director for international relations, called the verdict a “devastating blow,” which, he argued, “potentially creates a precedent for all hate criminals to simply claim insanity or decide to smoke, snort or inject drugs or even get drunk before committing their crimes.”

 

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PARIS — The highest court in France has ruled that the man who killed a Jewish woman in 2017 in an anti-Semitic frenzy cannot stand trial because he was in a state of acute mental delirium brought on by his consumption of cannabis.

Kobili Traoré, who has admitted to the killing and is in a psychiatric institution, beat Sarah Halimi, 65, before throwing her out the window of her Paris apartment to cries of “Allahu akbar,” or God is great, and “I killed the devil.”

Mr. Traoré, who was 27 at the time, had been troubled by Ms. Halimi’s mezuza, which “amplified the frantic outburst of hate,” according to one psychiatric report.

The verdict, more than four years after the killing, ended judicial proceedings in France for the case. The verdict came after a lower-court ruling rejected a trial, and the Halimi family appealed. President Emmanuel Macron made an unusual personal intervention by calling for the case to have its day in court. Outrage in the large French Jewish community has accompanied the long failure to try Mr. Traoré.

Francis Kalifat, the president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France, said, “From now on in our country, we can torture and kill Jews with complete impunity.”

Francis Szpiner, a lawyer for Ms. Halimi’s children, said it was “troubling and unjust” that the law fails to take account of “the origin of the mental state” behind the crime — in this case, Mr. Traoré’s drug use.

The highest court, known as the Court of Cassation, does not re-litigate the facts of a case. It only verifies that lower courts have correctly applied the law.

In its ruling, the court noted that under French law, “a person is not criminally responsible if suffering, at the time of the event, from psychic or neuropsychic disturbance that has eliminated all discernment or control” over the acts.

The court said the law, as currently written, does not distinguish between the reasons for that person’s condition. Even someone who, like Mr. Traoré, enters a delirious state because of voluntary drug use cannot be tried.

“The judge cannot distinguish where the legislator has chosen not to make a distinction,” the court said in a statement.

But Emmanuel Piwnica, another lawyer for the Halimi family, argued that the law was aimed at psychiatric disturbance, “not the consumption of narcotics or alcohol.” Judges should recognize, she said, that “the use of narcotics cannot be the basis for arguing penal irresponsibility.” Or, in other words, being high is no basis for a plea of insanity.

Mr. Traoré, a neighbor of Ms. Halimi, was an immigrant from Mali. He was a drug dealer and a heavy pot smoker, the criminal investigation found. He pushed Ms. Halimi, a retired physician and mother of three, from a third-floor window in the Belleville district of Paris. It remains unclear whether she was already dead from his brutal beating.

French prosecutors initially hesitated to call the crime anti-Semitic, another source of anger in a Jewish community used to circumlocutions when it comes to crimes against them.

Almost a year after Ms. Halimi was killed, a Holocaust survivor, Mireille Knoll was stabbed to death in her Paris apartment in what the prosecutor’s office called a killing tied to the “victim’s membership, real or supposed, of a particular religion.” In this case, the nature of the killing — a hate crime — was quickly recognized.

French Jews have been repeatedly targeted by jihadists over the past decade. In 2012, an Islamist gunman, Mohammed Merah, shot dead three children and a teacher at a Jewish school in the southern city of Toulouse. In 2015, Amedy Coulibaly identified customers as Jews at a kosher Paris supermarket before killing four of them. He declared he was murdering the people he hated most in the world: “the Jews and the French.”

Mr. Macron, sensitive to anger in the Jewish community at lone-wolf explanations of the violence, and at hesitation in some French media to use the words “anti-Semitic” in describing the crimes, said in January last year that the Halimi case “needs a trial.” He was widely rebuked for failing to respect the independence of the justice system.

Criticism has mounted over the law that has allowed Mr. Traoré to avoid trial. “It is possible to consider that the current law is unsatisfactory,” said Sandrine Zientara, one of the public prosecutors in the case. “Its application has led here to complete impunity.”

The outcome in the Halimi case, she said, had been met by “a great deal of incomprehension.”

Dozens of senators, reacting to the case, have proposed a revision of the law to the effect that psychic disturbance cannot exonerate someone whose troubled mental state is induced by a narcotic.

Of three psychiatric reports on Mr. Traoré, two said he could not appear in court because his capacity for discernment at the time of the crime had been “eliminated” by his delirious mental state. The third, by Daniel Zagury, said his mental state had only been “altered” and so he could be tried.

“The crime of Mr. Traoré is a frenzied, anti-Semitic act,” Mr. Zagury wrote.

Shimon Samuels, the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s director for international relations, called the verdict a “devastating blow,” which, he argued, “potentially creates a precedent for all hate criminals to simply claim insanity or decide to smoke, snort or inject drugs or even get drunk before committing their crimes.”

Taking cannabis is a choice, not a mental disease. The delirium that comes with it is a consequence of that choice. So sorry this woman will never get Justice. Hopefully someone takes him out sooner rather than later.
 

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How could he be troubled by a mezuzah? It is a small thing & by the front door! And the weed made him do it?!? Whatever...
 

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Not surprised. Most Americans romanticize the French. Spend enough time around them and you’ll see something Different.....
 

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The male's last name is 'Traoré'? He must be Malian.
Wow, and the French are letting him off due to mental instability caused by weed, for killing a white Jewish woman? Arrête, je rêve ou quoi...that is insane!
 

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I look at all cases as Rulings that Set a Precedent. If this man can be left off so easily in the courts For Killing Ms. Halimi then It's Opens The Door for More Hate Crimes and Killings.

Sorry State of Affairs in France


May She Rest in Paradise I hope Justice can Be Served
 

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Even if if his sentence is that he should be locked up on a mental hospital for life, he should have stood trial. He continued to smoke weed despite how it was doing more harm than good. I doubt that he was that high he couldn't remember his actions.
 

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This is giving me Dan White Twinkie defense tease. Dan claimed his depression coupled with the consumption of twinkies and sugary junk food caused diminished mental capacity which led to the assassination of harvey milk and mayor moscone.

that weed had to be laced with some sh!t. I’m not saying there’s no possibility of people acting insane by smoking a sh!t ton of weed, but 99.99999% of the time when that happens it is discovered that the weed was laced.
 

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The way France HATES women and especially women in minority communities is alarming! They have basically let it be known in their highest courts that if you want to get away with murder target a Black Jewish or Muslim woman. This is sad!
 

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Like others have mentioned, I don't understand the way people (Americans especially) romanticize France as some type of utopia. The way they treat POC and women is horrible. I still remember how almost "offended" they were when the Me Too movement started. Horrible place.
 

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BDE :(

I can't even imagine what she went through in her final moments. France Jews are quickly for Israel and I see why.
 

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France hates women, the age of consent is like 13, Roman pedo Polanski is living lavishly in France despite him being a pedophile, women who are killed by their partners/women beaten don’t even get justice.


Such a despicable country
 

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France hates women, the age of consent is like 13, Roman pedo Polanski is living lavishly in France despite him being a pedophile, women who are killed by their partners/women beaten don’t even get justice.


Such a despicable country
Pathetic. The age of consent world wide should be 21 imo.
 

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France hates women, the age of consent is like 13, Roman pedo Polanski is living lavishly in France despite him being a pedophile, women who are killed by their partners/women beaten don’t even get justice.


Such a despicable country
This is not true. What brought you to.type such misinformation about the age of consent without looking it up on the internet?
 

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France hates women, the age of consent is like 13, Roman pedo Polanski is living lavishly in France despite him being a pedophile, women who are killed by their partners/women beaten don’t even get justice.


Such a despicable country
This is not true. What brought you to.type such misinformation about the age of consent without looking it up on the internet?
 

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The way France HATES women and especially women in minority communities is alarming! They have basically let it be known in their highest courts that if you want to get away with murder target a Black Jewish or Muslim woman. This is sad!
I totally agree with this, you are a woman and from a minority community background you are no important to them.
What is also sad is the energy France put into the reaction against the verdict of this special case, they should put the same energy FOR ALL INJUSTICE disregarding the religion and the background unfortunately in France when you're Jewish or White French then the you receive the help you need whether the final decision, like this case, is unfair or fair.
They claim to be a laïque (all religion are accepted basically) country but you can't as a Muslim wear on what you want because it's a trigger for other people they feel offended? You can't expose the Star of David in certain places because you never know how people are going to react around you? But if you are a Christian or Catholique please wear the cross it is fine... Make it make sense France seriously..
This whole country need to evolve

I really am sorry for what happened to that lady, the guy should at least been intern into an asile not let free in the street....
 

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France hates women, the age of consent is like 13, Roman pedo Polanski is living lavishly in France despite him being a pedophile, women who are killed by their partners/women beaten don’t even get justice.


Such a despicable country
Which country do you live in?
 

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  • Kobili Traoré killed an Orthodox Jewish woman in 2018 by throwing her off her balcony in Paris.
  • France's top court has ruled that he will not go on trial because he was in a drug-induced psychosis.
  • Cannabis was found in Traoré's blood after he was taken into custody for the killing.
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France's top court ruled on Wednesday that the killer of an elderly Jewish woman will not go on trial, France24 reported.

Kobili Traoré admitted to murdering his neighbor, Sarah Halimi, in 2017. He shouted "Allahu Akbar," or "God is great" in Arabic, and "I killed the devil," shortly before throwing her off the balcony of her third-floor Paris apartment, The New York Times said.

On Wednesday, the Court of Cassation — France's final court of appeal — affirmed two prior judgments that ruled that Traoré could not be held criminally responsible for his actions because he was in a state of drug-induced psychosis.


Traoré, a drug dealer, smoked pot every day for 13 years and had up to 15 joints a day, Israel Hayom reported. Toxicological analysis revealed the presence of cannabis in his blood on the day he was arrested, the French newspaper Libération said.

The court noted that "a person is not criminally responsible if suffering, at the time of the event, from psychic or neuropsychic disturbance that has eliminated all discernment or control," The Times said.

Traoré will be held in mental health institutions until doctors deem him fit to return to society, according to reports.


In December 2019, President Emmanuel Macron made a rare intervention by criticizing the Paris appeals court for saying that Traore was unfit for trial.

"Even if, in the end, the judge decided that there was no criminal responsibility, there is a need for a trial," Macron said in 2020.

The country's top magistrates then criticized Macron for impacting the "independence of the justice system," The Times of Israel reported.

The ruling has angered French politicians and France's Jewish community, the largest in Europe.

Dozens of French senators have reacted by proposing a revision to the law that exonerates a crime due to a drug-induced psychosis, The New York Times said.

 
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What type of weed was that?

Drug induced pyschosis, from WEED and weed alone?

Weed is a hallucinogenic, stimulant or depressive drug depending on the person and the strain. while it does relax most, it can have the opposite effect on others.

It can exacerbate symptoms in those with schizophrenia and cause severe hallucinations in others. It’s why I’ll never take my chances with it.

I have a friend who seemed to develop schizophrenic symptoms after smoking weed with some friends. Its a dangerous drug for some and he may be one of those people just looking at how often he smoked.
 

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Weed is a hallucinogenic, stimulant or depressive drug depending on the person and the strain. while it does relax most, it can have the opposite effect on others.

It can exacerbate symptoms in those with schizophrenia and cause severe hallucinations in others. It’s why I’ll never take my chances with it.

I have a friend who seemed to develop schizophrenic symptoms after smoking weed with some friends. Its a dangerous drug for some and he may be one of those people just looking at how often he smoked.
I'm a daily smoker, and what I smoke is potent. I've never seen a person truly get off their square when they were smoking weed alone. If he were truly suffering drug induced psychosis from smoking weed it wouldn't have been an only one time event that happened with his neighbor, there would have been other acts of violence or incidents of attempted self harm. There's a lot in the article about the AMOUNT of weed he smoked, however there's very little said about his actual symptoms and how they arrived at the fact that he was actually suffering psychosis brought on by the drugs in his system.
 

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Clearly France isn’t so “islamphobic” if they are letting a man who killed someone in the name of Allah go free
 

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Outrage as France’s highest court rules a killer ‘who screamed Allahu Akbar while throwing a Jewish woman from her balcony to her death' cannot be tried because he was psychotic from cannabis at the time​

  • Kobili Traore battered Sarah Halimi and threw her out of a window in April 2017
  • Traore was high on cannabis at the time he killed Ms Halimi, who was 65
  • The killer shouted Allahu Akbar as he threw the Jewish woman to her death
  • France's appeal court ruled Traore cannot be tried for her murder as he was psychotic at the time from smoking up to 15 cannabis joints a day
Sarah Halimi, pictured, was killed and thrown from her balcony by Kobili Traore in April 2017 while the drug dealer was suffering a cannabis-fueled psychotic episode

Sarah Halimi, pictured, was killed and thrown from her balcony by Kobili Traore in April 2017 while the drug dealer was suffering a cannabis-fueled psychotic episode

France's top court will not prosecute a Muslim man who shouted 'Allahu Akbar' as he allegedly pushed a Jewish woman from the balcony of her apartment block because he was in a psychotic state from cannabis.

The Court of Cassation's Supreme Court of Appeals upheld a previous ruling that the defendant, Kobili Traore, cannot be held criminally responsible for the killing of Jewish woman Sarah Halimi in Paris in April 2017 after smoking up to 15 cannabis joints a day triggered a psychotic episode.

According to French newspaper Le Parisien, Halimi, who was 65, was beaten before being thrown from her apartment building.
Traore reportedly shouted 'Allahu Akbar' ('God is great' in Arabic) as he pushed the Jewish woman to her death. He is also claimed to have said: 'I have killed the devil.'

Wednesday's decision to not allow the defendant to take the stand as he was not considered criminally responsible has angered Jewish and anti-racism groups.

The heavy cannabis user has remained in a psychiatric facility since the victim's death in April 2017.

According to the New York Times, Traore was also dealing drugs from his flat and was paranoid because of his drug use.

French judges ruled Kobili Traore's heavy cannabis use caused a 'delirious fit' while carrying out the killing and was therefore not mentally fit to stand trial

French judges ruled Kobili Traore's heavy cannabis use caused a 'delirious fit' while carrying out the killing and was therefore not mentally fit to stand trial

One psychiatric report said a religious icon hanging from Halimi's door 'amplified the frantic outburst of hate'.

The court said he suffered a 'delirious fit' while carrying out the killing and was therefore not responsible for his actions.

Halimi's death has sparked debate over increasing anti-Semitism among Muslim youths in predominantly migrant areas of Paris.

French President Emmanuel Macron previously criticised the lower court's decision in January last year, adding that there was a 'need for a trial' despite the judge ruling that the defendant was not criminally responsible.

Jewish groups said the decision highlights France's failure to deal with growing anti-Semitism.
The decision to block the prosecution of Traore was condemned by Jewish representatives as the attack was anti-Semitic. While throwing his victim from the balcony Traore called out 'God is Great' in Arabic before claiming he had just 'killed the devil'

The decision to block the prosecution of Traore was condemned by Jewish representatives as the attack was anti-Semitic. While throwing his victim from the balcony Traore called out 'God is Great' in Arabic before claiming he had just 'killed the devil'

Francis Kalifat, president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France, said: 'From now on in our country, we can torture and kill Jews with complete impunity.'

The International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism said after the decision: 'This is an additional drama that adds to this tragedy.'
Meanwhile, the victim's family has said they plan to take the case to the European Court of Human Rights.

Muriel Ouaknine Melki, the lawyer for the victim's brother, said: 'It's a bad message for French Jewish citizens.'
The court accepted that Traore, now in his early 30s, had anti-Semitic views linked to the killing, but accepted the defence's claim that he was psychotic at the time and should be placed in a psychiatric institution.
 

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I’m not buying it. He was lucid enough to shout "Allahu Akbar," and "I killed the devil," before throwing her off of the balcony and admitted to murdering her. He wasn’t that damn out of his mind. He knew what he was doing. They just let some people get away with everything these days.
 

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  • Kobili Traoré killed an Orthodox Jewish woman in 2018 by throwing her off her balcony in Paris.
  • France's top court has ruled that he will not go on trial because he was in a drug-induced psychosis.
  • Cannabis was found in Traoré's blood after he was taken into custody for the killing.
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France's top court ruled on Wednesday that the killer of an elderly Jewish woman will not go on trial, France24 reported.

Kobili Traoré admitted to murdering his neighbor, Sarah Halimi, in 2017. He shouted "Allahu Akbar," or "God is great" in Arabic, and "I killed the devil," shortly before throwing her off the balcony of her third-floor Paris apartment, The New York Times said.

On Wednesday, the Court of Cassation — France's final court of appeal — affirmed two prior judgments that ruled that Traoré could not be held criminally responsible for his actions because he was in a state of drug-induced psychosis.


Traoré, a drug dealer, smoked pot every day for 13 years and had up to 15 joints a day, Israel Hayom reported. Toxicological analysis revealed the presence of cannabis in his blood on the day he was arrested, the French newspaper Libération said.

The court noted that "a person is not criminally responsible if suffering, at the time of the event, from psychic or neuropsychic disturbance that has eliminated all discernment or control," The Times said.

Traoré will be held in mental health institutions until doctors deem him fit to return to society, according to reports.


In December 2019, President Emmanuel Macron made a rare intervention by criticizing the Paris appeals court for saying that Traore was unfit for trial.

"Even if, in the end, the judge decided that there was no criminal responsibility, there is a need for a trial," Macron said in 2020.

The country's top magistrates then criticized Macron for impacting the "independence of the justice system," The Times of Israel reported.

The ruling has angered French politicians and France's Jewish community, the largest in Europe.

Dozens of French senators have reacted by proposing a revision to the law that exonerates a crime due to a drug-induced psychosis, The New York Times said.

This would never have been the outcome if this travesty happened in the United States.

What. Jews don't have a stronghold in Paris?
 

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Thats a dumb excuse, not buying it. These extremists take their religious beliefs too far.

I hope the Jewish community in France come together to get justice for the victim.

RIP to her.
 

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Absolutely horrendous. What an awful way for that poor woman to die and then for them to let him get away with it - disgusting.
 

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