New Delhi, June 25 -- A French woman who burned her bedridden grandfather alive by setting his mattress on fire was given a five-year prison term on Wednesday, with four years suspended, after prosecutors appealed a previous sentence they deemed too lenient.

A French court on Wednesday handed a five-year jail term to a woman who burned her bedridden grandfather alive by setting his mattress on fire. The prosecutors had appealed a previous sentence saying that they found it 'too lenient'.

In October last year, Emilie G, 33, was given a five-year suspended sentence after she admitted to killing her grandfather, describing it as "an act of love" to end his suffering.

Later, Prosecutors appealed the ruling, saying she killed the 95-year-ol...