''Jurors have found a Quebec man guilty of first-degree murder in the death of 19-year-old junior college student Guylaine Potvin in 2000.
The trial of Marc-André Grenon took place in Saguenay, Que., and the jury's verdict was delivered Tuesday at 5 p.m., after less than three hours of deliberation.
Spectators in the packed courtroom could be seen hugging and wiping away tears after the verdicts were read.
Grenon, 49, was also found guilty of the aggravated sexual assault of Potvin in her basement apartment in April 2000 in Jonquière, Que., now a part of Saguenay, some 215 kilometres north of Quebec City.''
A Quebec Superior Court judge on Tuesday described Marc-André Grenon as a morally and sexually depraved killer as he sentenced him to life in prison for the first-degree murder of Quebec junior college student Guylaine Potvin in 2000.
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''Justice François Huot addressed Grenon moments after a jury convicted him at the courthouse in Saguenay, Que.
"I want to make this clear: I only feel disgust and contempt for the actions you took on April 28, 2000," Huot told Grenon, who declined the judge's invitation to address the victim's parents, present in the courtroom.
"You are an individual, as I mentioned a few moments ago, who is completely devoid of morality. You are sexually depraved and a murderer."
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Huot did not hold back as he sentenced Grenon, describing the convicted killer as a coward who attacked a vulnerable victim while she was asleep with her teddy bear, and then went on to enjoy 22 years of undeserved liberty before his arrest.
"Tell me, accused, while you were abusing Guylaine, did you feel strong? Did you feel courageous? Did you feel like a man, a real one?" he asked. "What a demonstration of force. What a demonstration of courage. It’s absolutely disgusting."
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The jury did not hear that Grenon, of Granby, Que., east of Montreal, is also charged with attempted murder and sexual assault in connection with a case in the provincial capital just months after Potvin's killing.
Police said their investigation into Potvin's murder turned up similarities with the Quebec City case from July 2000, in which a female student, living alone, was assaulted and left for dead but survived the attack.''