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| A 55-year-old man has been found guilty of killing his wife and dumping her body in a French lake. | A 55-year-old man has been found guilty of killing his wife and dumping her body in a French lake. |
| Robert Lund, originally from Darwen in Lancashire, has been jailed for 12 years following the trial in Albi, south west France. | |
| The jury convicted Lund of his wife's involuntary homicide. | The jury convicted Lund of his wife's involuntary homicide. |
| Evelyn Lund, 52, disappeared from the family home in France in 1999. Her car was found in Lake Bancalie with her body inside two years later. | Evelyn Lund, 52, disappeared from the family home in France in 1999. Her car was found in Lake Bancalie with her body inside two years later. |
| The jury of five men and four women rejected Lund's claim that his wife had driven into the lake by accident following a storm. | |
| He had originally been charged with her murder but was cleared and convicted of the lesser offence of involuntary homicide, which means that the jury did not accept that he intended to kill her. | |
| During the five-day trial the court heard that Lund, a former tree cutter, had subjected his wife to a sustained campaign of mental and physical abuse that culminated in her death in December 1999. |