Murder of Magali Blandin: her husband, who confessed, commits suicide in prison – teller report

He will not answer for the murder of his wife in court. Jérôme Gaillard, Magali Blandin’s husband, ended his days in prison, LCI learned from concordant sources, confirming information from BFMTV and the Parisian. His lifeless body was found in his cell, hanged, on the night of Sunday, October 31 to Monday, November 1, during a round of prison guards.

Incarcerated since his indictment last March, the 45-year-old man admitted killing his wife, who disappeared on February 11 in the town of Montfort-sur-Meu (Ille-et-Vilaine) and was found dead on March 20 in Boisgervilly, near Rennes, after several days of fruitless searches. He had explained that he had murdered her with a baseball bat, before leading the gendarmes to a wood where he had buried the lifeless body of Magali, with whom he was in the process of divorce and who had filed a complaint. complaint for domestic violence in early September, finally dismissed.

According to our information, Magali Blandin’s husband was under specific surveillance for medical problems, hence the more frequent rounds of prison guards in front of his cell.

On March 21, Jérôme Gaillard was indicted for “attempted murder by spouse” for a first criminal project hatched at the end of 2020 and for “murder by spouse” on the person of Magali Blandin, a specialized educator of 42 years. According to the prosecution, a “criminal conspiracy” aiming to eliminate the mother of four children began in November 2020 between the husband and Georgian relations, to whom he paid 20,000 euros to execute his wife, before taking action himself.

Her parents, Monique and Jean Gaillard, aged 72 and 75, were indicted for “complicity in attempted murder by spouse” and “complicity in murder by spouse”. Summoned on October 12 for a confrontation with their son which lasted nearly six hours, they admitted having been informed of the latter’s criminal project before Christmas 2020, according to three sources familiar with the matter. The mother of the main suspect had declared to have paid money to her son to help him financially, knowing that this sum could be used to carry out the project to eliminate Magali Blandin.