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He has had six custodial sentences, including three for unspecified crimes in magistrates' courts in the 1990s, according to the Ministry of Justice.

She said: "There is a fundamental lack of transparency and accountability when it comes to judges and magistrates recognising domestic abuse, recognising coercive control, and hearing child voices in the family court system."

Four Burkinabe appeals court magistrates are meanwhile missing, assumed abducted, since the start of this month, according to judicial sources.

When asked by a magistrate what Puech had seen in him, Freymond responded that it was “probably my looks. My way of carrying myself. The fact that I had respect for him.”

But the jury of six civilians and three magistrates decided that there was enough circumstantial evidence to conclude that Jubillar was guilty of murder.