A French bartender has been found guilty of manslaughter and has received a suspended sentence of four months in prison after he served a customer 56 shots of alcohol that eventually killed him, according to the BBC.
Renaud Prudhomme, 56, surpassed the in-house record for most shots consumed in October last year in the company of his daughter and some friends at a bar located in the town of Clermont-Ferrand, France. Prudhomme's companions took him home in his intoxicated state, but they soon had to contact emergency services. He was pronounced dead in the hospital the next day.
At an earlier hearing, the bartender, 47-year old Gilles Crepin, admitted that he had made a mistake by advertising the in-house shots record on a notice board which encouraged the victim to go too far.
Crepin was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to four months in prison by a local court on Wednesday and prohibited from working in a bar for a year, according to Time.
Prudhomme was suffering from alcohol abuse and had respiratory complications that were not known to the bartender at the time. Crepin's lawyer said they would appeal the decision. "We cannot ask every customer who buys alcohol to present their medical certificates," he said.
The counsel representing the victim's daughter responded, "We want to remind some professionals that it is illegal to serve alcohol to clients who are in an advanced state of inebriation," The Guardian reported.
