Female jail guard goes on trial
for ‘kiss of death’ to gangster

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Henry Samuel
© Telegraph.co.uk

A French female prison guard stood trial yesterday for planting a “kiss of death” on an incognito mafia boss that helped rivals identify him and gun him down.

Pleading for leniency, her lawyer described Cathy Senechal as an “Emma Bovary” figure, bored with her dull existence as a mother-of-four, who gradually became fascinated with the Corsican underworld.