Following the conviction of her tormenter, the New Brunswick woman kidnapped at knifepoint by Romeo Cormier said she's thankful she can finally put the entire episode behind her.

"I can move on with my life," the woman, whose identity is protected by a publication ban, told reporters outside the court where the verdict was delivered Wednesday. "Hopefully things can be back to normal from here on in."

Inside the courtroom, Cormier smirked silently when the jury found him guilty of all charges related to the 2010 abduction and confinement of the 55-year-old woman.

Cormier had pleaded not guilty to charges including kidnapping, forcible confinement, sexual assault, assault with a weapon, robbery and uttering death threats.

But in their verdict Wednesday, the jury told the Moncton courtroom they had found him guilty on all six charges. They had deliberated for just six hours.

With her husband's arm around her, the woman sat in the courtroom and listened to the verdict. She later told reporters that the judgment brought her great relief.

"He's just a man with no remorse," she said.

"He thinks the world owes him something, and he thinks he can do what he wants and everybody has to cater to him. He thinks he's a somebody. He's just a mean person."

Cormier, 63, was arrested on March 24, 2010 after the woman -- who had been the subject of a missing person investigation -- accused him of abducting her at knifepoint outside the Moncton mall where she worked. The woman said she was held against her will in his one-room basement apartment for 26 days.

During the trial, Cormier testified that the woman was an acquaintance who wanted to be with him. He also told the court that the woman was plotting with him to kill her husband.

She said it was difficult to listen to Cormier's testimony, but she clung to the hope that no one would believe him.

She soundly rejected Cormier's testimony throughout the trial, tearfully testifying that she was sexually assaulted during her time in captivity.

"You're my woman now. . . . I expect you to take care of me," she told the court, recalling Cormier's comments during her detainment.

She also testified that during the time she spent trapped in his apartment, Cormier left her alone three times -- but gagged her each time.

The woman said she was able to free herself on March 24, while Cormier was out at a food bank. A neighbour and a courier truck driver told the court that they saw the woman run into the street wearing just a t-shirt, underwear and socks on the morning of her escape.

In his testimony, Cormier said he had first met the woman in 1993 in Newfoundland while he was a courier.

He described the woman as an "acquaintance" of his, claiming that they had bumped into each other several times in Moncton between 2006 and January 2010.

Cormier also told the court that she had enlisted him in a plan to kill her husband on Feb. 26, 2010. That night, Cormier claimed, they went to her home and peered through the bedroom windows.

According to Cormier, the two decided to call off the plan and return to his apartment where they engaged in consensual sex games.

The woman sobbed several times during her testimony, saying she didn't think she could survive the ordeal. But she said news reports of her family's search for her and her daughter's pregnancy lifted her spirits and convinced her to do whatever she had to in order to stay alive.

The woman said Wednesday that while testifying was difficult, she "wanted to show (Cormier) that he never had control of me, not for one minute. I controlled him and he didn't even know it."

The woman's husband, who sat by his wife for each day of the trial, called the ordeal "pure hell."

"Just to have to sit there in the courtroom and listen to some monster talk about your wife in the way that he talked about her," the man said.

Had the trial's outcome been different, the woman's daughter said, the family "would never be able to sleep knowing a man got away with this."

After Wednesday's verdict, Cormier's legal team told reporters that a decision to appeal will be left to their client. However, they also said they achieved their objective of getting Cormier a fair trial in Moncton.

"It was properly done, we felt," lawyer Robert Rideout told reporters. "And we feel that they assessed all of the facts and evidence and the law and made a decision, and we accept that."

Crown prosecutor Annie St. Jacques hailed the verdict as "a message for all women."

Cormier will be back in court on Aug. 18 for sentencing.

With a report from CTV Atlantic's Dina Bartolacci and Nick Moore and files from The Canadian Press