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A man convicted of paying someone to throw acid in the face of his ex-girlfriend failed to get an appeal court to overturn his verdict.

David Vinet was convicted in July 2016 of having advised the commission of a crime and sentenced in September to a three-year prison term. With time served taken into account, he was left with 15 and a half months.

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The acid attack he requested never took place. Vinet made the demand in 2012 to a man who lived in the same rooming house as him, offering $10,000.

Vinet’s appeal alleged that Quebec Court Judge Sandra Blanchard erred because the crime he was charged with was not proven beyond a reasonable doubt and because with his mental state, he was not capable of forming the intent to commit a crime. He said he never told the accomplice all the information necessary to find his ex, and only met the man twice.

Vinet said that after his ex-girlfriend broke up with him, he lost his job and became an alcoholic. He got the idea for an acid attack from Iraq, where it is a punishment for infidelity, the trial heard.

The appeal court rejected Vinet’s arguments, saying Blanchard “did not commit an error that could justify the intervention of this court, and the verdict she rendered was not unreasonable.”