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Crown outlines case against Quebec man charged with suffocating ailing wife

MONTREAL — The Crown outlined its case this morning against a Quebec man who is charged with killing his ailing wife after concluding she did not qualify for a medically assisted death.

Michel Cadotte is accused of suffocating his wife, Jocelyne Lizotte, at a Montreal long-term care facility in February 2017.

She had been living there for three years with advanced Alzheimer’s. She could no longer speak, take care of herself or recognize relatives.

Prosecutor Antonio Parapuf says the 60-year-old woman had been suffering from Alzheimer’s for about a decade, and the evidence will show that Cadotte struggled with his wife’s condition.

Cadotte had looked into assisted death for her in 2016. He discovered she did not qualify because she was not able to consent to the procedure and was not considered to be at the end of her life.

The eight-man, four-woman jury will begin hearing from police witnesses later today at the Montreal courthouse.

The Canadian Press