A Scots man has been jailed for a series of serious sexual offences against women. Sinclair Leahy was at the High Court in Edinburgh on Friday and handed a six-year sentence after being found guilty of serious sexual offences.
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A woman who was yesterday jailed for brutally murdering her young boyfriend gave an astonishing response to her guilty verdict. Natalie Bennett was convicted of killing her partner Kasey Anderson in October and was sentenced yesterday following a trial at Liverpool Crown Court.
The 47-year-old stabbed him death a week before his 25th birthday. She slashed him several times with a knife before plunging it into his heart in March this year. During the trial, the court heard she tried to stab him in the head as he lay fatally injured on the neighbour’s driveway begging for help.
The Liverpool Echo reported that Mr Anderson had been telling a 999 call handler that he was dying. Evil Bennett then lied to police when they arrived, claiming that he had come to her home in Croxteth, Liverpool, with the stab wounds.
During sentencing Denis Watson KC said he believed Bennett had been continually abusive towards Mr Anderson, leaving him with black eyes. Then, how on the fateful day in question, they had an argument before she turned violent and he tried to fight back.
She initially showed no reaction as she was given a life sentence, with a minimum of 18 years behind bars, but did stick her thumb up as she was led down to the cells. It was thought this was to her dad, who had been in the public gallery.
Sentencing, Judge Denis Watson KC said: "Your relationship with him began some five years ago, when he was about 19 or 20 and you were 42. It was a volatile relationship, and his family watched with increasing despair as he changed from happy go lucky to someone who drank, took drugs and whose mental health deteriorated."
"His family saw him with injuries and black eyes on many occasions. His family were convinced, correctly in my view,
A Scots man has been jailed for a series of serious sexual offences against women. Sinclair Leahy was at the High Court in Edinburgh on Friday and handed a six-year sentence after being found guilty of serious sexual offences.
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