An 81-year-old Quebec man has been sentenced to prison after admitting to killing his wife with Alzheimer’s disease.
Gilles Brassard received a life sentence for second-degree murder with no chance of parole for 10 years and six months.
Brassard claimed he was acting out of compassion when he strangled his wife of 53 years, Thérèse Brassard-Lévesque, 79, with a rope at a long-term care home north of Montreal last year.
“I didn’t do it out of hate, I did it out of love,” he said outside of court after the sentencing on Friday.
“I could see her diminishing so much and the worst was yet to come. I wasn’t capable of enduring it all.”
His loved ones wiped tears off their faces as Superior Court Justice Helene di Salvo delivered her decision at the Laval courthouse Friday morning.
“The family feels so powerless. The family is hurt,” said Brassard’s lawyer, …