Robert Lund has been jailed for 12 years after a French jury found him guilty of killing his wife.
The jury took three and half hours to reach its verdict of involuntary homicide after a week-long trial in the southern town of Albi.
Lund, 55, killed Evelyn, 52, after a row at their home in the village of La Veaute on December 29, 1999.
He and dumped her body, inside her Toyota 4x4, in a nearby lake, where it stayed undiscovered for 22 months.
Lund was cleared of murder, which means that the jury did not accept that he intended to kill her.
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