A lawyer who defended ‘the worst mass paedophile who has ever lived’ has been found dead in an apparent suicide.

Maxime Tessier, 34, defended Joel Le Scouarnec, 74, AKA ‘the devil in a white coat’, who raped nearly 300 patients under the age of 15 between 1989 and 2014.

The victims are made up of 158 men and 141 women who had an average age of 11 when they were allegedly attacked in public hospitals across France, where Le Scouarnec worked as a doctor.

Le Scouarnec usually attacked his victims, with the youngest being just four, while they were under anaesthetic.

Earlier this year, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison, which seems stupidly light for someone who raped nearly 300 people. It equates to under a month per victim! I know he’ll probably die behind bars, but what was stopping them from giving him life?

Especially as he was also previously busted for downloading indecent images of children (shocker), for which he was given a suspended four-month sentence in 2005.

Incredibly, he managed to secure a job as a surgeon at a public hospital in Quimperle, western France, the following year. He continued to work in public hospitals until his re-arrest 12 years later on suspicion of raping his six-year-old neighbour.

Police also found child sized sex dolls chained up in his home, and notebooks where he detailed his sexual assaults on child patients.

His lawyer, Maxime Tessier, has since been found dead, with chief prosecutor Frederic Teillet, from the western French city of Rennes, saying: ‘Everything points to suicide.’

Tessier’s associate Catherine Glon said he ‘had a very high regard for justice and was therefore very demanding towards himself’. Um, really?

Well, come to think of it, perhaps he did have a very high regard for justice, which is why he was so disappointed in himself for defending the indefensible. Why would someone like that accept this case in the first place? I guess we’ll never know.

Weirdly, there was a shocking lack of interest in the case from the French media and French people in general. Myriam Guedj-Benayoun, a lawyer representing several of Le Scouarnec’s victims, has a theory:

“The issue is that this trial is about sexual abuse of children. There’s a virtual omertà on this topic globally, but particularly in France. We simply don’t want to acknowledge it”

She might be onto something there.

For the man who used an AI lawyer in court and had it backfire in his face spectacularly, click HERE.