France’s ‘Black Widow’ bagged 22 years in prison for the murder of two old men
France’s ‘Black Widow’ bagged 22 years in prison for the murder of two old men
Patricia
Dagorn was described as a “perverse narcissist” who was “venal and unscrupulous” in the Nice court where she was accused of killing two men she
had seduced, and poisoning two others “with premeditation”.
Prosecutors told the court that Dagorn, a divorced law graduate,
met at least 20 men in the Côte d’Azur in 2011 and 2012 mostly via a matchmaking agency, but also through small ads online and by approaching
elderly men in the street.
Before
the trial, Nice prosecutor Jean-Michel Prêtre said: “She would be full ofempathy for these men, would gain their confidence, siphon off their money and
end up by working out how to make them disappear.”
Dagorn was accused of murdering a 60-year-old man found lying in a pool of blood in a Nice flat in 2011. While investigating the death, detectives linked her to the
unexplained death of a second man whose badly decomposed body was discovered in
the bath of his home near Cannes.
She
was said to have put Valium into meals she prepared for her elderly, wealthy
lovers, before persuading them to sign cheques and documents, giving her money or changing their wills in her favour.
The
public prosecutor Annie Brunet-Fuster had requested a 30-year sentence saying
the crimes merited a “severe punishment”.
“When she denies everything she’s not telling the truth,” Brunet-Fuster told the
jury.
“When she doesn’t want to go back on what she’s said she just invents something else,” Brunet-Fuster added, describing Dagorn as a “psychopath”.
During
the four day trial, Dagorn told the court she had been “very good friends” with
the men who had died.
After the verdict the
court heard Dagorn had already been convicted four times for fraud and preying
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