Proboodat Joucoo was sentenced to 15 years on Wednesday after he walked into the New York courtroom branding his victim a sinner. A report by the NY Daily News said "Joucoo was sporting a white T-shirt on which he had scrawled the words "unfaithful" and "home breaker" to describe the woman he attacked during a family birthday party two years ago."
It said jealousy had sparked the vicious assault on Gaytri Collet, and Joucoo, 46, was showing no remorse. He was apparently still angry that his former wife had taken up with another man.Joucoo was ordered to remove the shirt by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice John Leventhal, who then sentenced him to 15 years in prison. "What you did was truly reprehensible," said Leventhal referring to the attack. "Truly, what I would call evil."
Collet, 44, whose arms were nearly severed in the attack, wept quietly in the arms of a friend. She said later the punishment was not severe enough. "Justice wasn't served today," she said. "This gives him the chance to do it to someone else after he gets out."
On May 20, 2005, Joucoo showed up, uninvited with machete in hand, at the 15th birthday party of one of his and Collet's sons in Sunset Park. Without warning, he attacked Collet in front of their five children.
After the attack, he ran from police for nearly a year but was captured in Pennsylvania in June 2006, after appearing on the television programme America's Most Wanted.
