Man who attacked Nancy Pelosi's husband with a hammer is jailed for 30 years

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David DePape was convicted in 2023 of breaking into the couple’s San Francisco home and bludgeoning Paul Pelosi.

Mr Paul Pelosi, husband of former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was bludgeoned with a hammer at the couple's San Francisco home by David DePape, who broke in with the intention of attacking Mrs Pelosi.

On arriving at their home armed with rope, gloves and duct tape, DePape instead encountered her then-82-year-old husband, and kept asking, “Where’s Nancy?“ Mr Pelosi was knocked unconscious and had his skull fractured. He spent almost a week in a hospital, where he underwent surgery.Prosecutors had asked the federal court in San Francisco to sentence DePape to 40 years in prison.

“Our home remains a heartbreaking crime scene,” she wrote, according to court documents cited by the San Francisco Chronicle.

 

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