“What is consistent in the accused’s story is that nothing was ever built. There were attempts to build it but from the moment the toxics increased, there was nothing more. Everything became a series of stories. A series of legal stories,” reported Professor Loïck Villerbu, this Wednesday, December 20, on the third day of the trial of Mahoney Leilde, a 34-year-old Quimper man on trial for murder.
Throughout his testimony, the psychologist expert attempted to retrace the life course of the accused, from his childhood until his indictment for the murder of a sixty-year-old whose body was discovered on November 13 2020, upstairs in the former La Maison bar. yellow, place du Stivel, in Quimper. But it was not easy because, during his interviews with the thirty-year-old, he was confronted with a major difficulty.
“There is no continuity in his words”
“He is both there and not there. It goes in all directions. He is there but more as a spectator. Understanding is good but he doesn’t know how to argue, he doesn’t know how to describe. There is no continuity in his words,” continues the psycho-criminologist. A behavior that he adopted during the trial, not being able to express himself, making very confused and contradictory comments.
Describing the intelligence of the accused as “average”, Professor Loïck Villerbu recalled that his schooling in Quimper at Diwan had been disrupted due to “a state of instability”, “turbulence”. The expert notably mentioned attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). At high school, in Rennes, things became complicated because he had left “his cocoon”, his mother with whom he had a “close relationship”. A “child king” who wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps in the printing business.
“Nothing lasts, nothing is built”
But “he cannot conclude. It’s always in the sketch, it never comes to fruition. Nothing lasts, nothing is built, nothing is achieved. It is an important psychological element that we will find for all the choices he makes subsequently,” continued Professor Loïck Villerbu, specifying a “pathological mental construction”. An active life without a profession, living mainly on Active Solidarity Income (RSA). All mixed with a “search for external stimuli” because “nothing fits” in “his project of an imaginary life” where “nothing is real”. Dependence on alcohol, tobacco and narcotics with daily consumption.
“The toxins will push him to act, to take action. It gives him a sense of existence. Without toxic substances, everything goes away, everything collapses,” noted the expert. Addictions which worsened his psychological problems. Psychological problems which worsened over the course of his incarceration: fifteen entries in the criminal record, three long periods of incarceration. Today, by the admission of those close to him, Mahoney Leilde has gone from a “happy”, “nice” child to a “scary”, “disconnected”, “crazy” man.
Tried for murder, the accused, who disputes the facts, faces thirty years of criminal imprisonment. The verdict could come this Thursday, December 21.
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