Killer Briton will not appeal
Expat's murderer 'does not want to put victim's family through new court case'
BRITON Neil Ludlam, jailed for 15 years for the murder of 67-year-old Dordogne resident Peter Fuller (pictured), has said he will not appeal against the sentence.
Ludlam, the gardener and handyman at Mr Fuller's golf club at Plaisance, near Bergerac, killed his employer after a drunken row in June 2009 and has been in jail since being arrested as he stepped off a plane from Bordeaux at Luton. He told the court he was "very sorry" about what happened.
His lawyer, Me Antoine de Caunes, told Connexion he felt sure the appeal court in Bordeaux would cut the jail term but Ludlam had told him he was "ready to take responsibility for his actions - actions in which he does not recognise himself".
Me de Caunes said Ludlam was full of remorse and "could not envisage going through a new court case in Périgueux and refused to put Mr Fuller's daughter and their family through it all again".
The court had heard that Mr Fuller's blood-covered body had 59 stab wounds.
* Read more on this case with reaction from Mr Fuller's family in the July issue of the Dordogne Advertiser on sale in newsagents across the department from June 27 or call Nathalie on 06 40 61 71 97 to order a copy by post.
