Jury begins deliberating fate of man charged with murdering Quebec student in 2000

SAGUENAY, Que. — Jurors have started deliberating in the trial of a Quebec man charged with the first-degree murder and sexual assault of 19-year-old junior college student Guylaine Potvin in 2000.

Superior Court Justice François Huot finished delivering his instructions today in the Saguenay, Que., trial of Marc-André Grenon.

Grenon, 49, is charged with murdering and assaulting Potvin in her basement apartment in April 2000 in Jonquière, Que., now a part of Saguenay, some 215 kilometres north of Quebec City.

The Crown is pushing for a first-degree murder conviction, arguing that Grenon killed Potvin during the course of a sexual assault that began while she was asleep in her bed.