A French court sentenced a 69-year-old grandmother yesterday to 15 years jail for hiring a gunman to kill her son-in- law, closing a sensational trial spiced with glamour, money and mystery, Reuter reports from Paris. Marie-Elisabeth Cons-Boutboul was charged with being an accomplice in the 1985 murder of business lawyer Jacques Perrot, husband of her glamorous jockey daughter Darie Boutboul.
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