Woman to stand trial in France for killing stepfather after years of abuse

Valerie Bacot, who had four children with alleged abuser, will say she believed he would kill them all

On Monday, a French woman, Valerie Bacot, will walk into a court to be tried for killing her stepfather turned husband. She has admitting shooting him dead and believes she should be punished.

In her defence, she is expected to tell the the hearing at at Chalon-sur-Saone in Burgundy how Daniel Dany" Polette made her life hell from the day he raped her when she was 12, to the day he died 24 years later while prostituting her.