A French court on Thursday convicted a man of involuntary manslaughter after the pit bull he had illegally imported and trained to bite mauled to death his pregnant girlfriend.
The court in the northern town of Soissons handed Christophe Ellul, 51, a suspended four-year sentence, and ordered the dog put down.
Ellul in November 2019 found his girlfriend dead in a forest outside the town, her body covered with 50 bites.
Elisa Pilarski, a 29-year-old who was six months pregnant, had been out walking their two-year-old dog, an American pit bull terrier named Curtis.
Minutes before she died, she had called him at work at an airport outside Paris some 50 kilometres away to say she had been bitten and she could not control their dog, the investigation showed.
