Australia: Woman jailed for only two years for killing husband
Submitted by anthony on Mon, 2009-03-16 01:02
Story here. Excerpt:
'A Melbourne woman who shot dead her husband and lied about it for seven years, has been sentenced to five years in jail.
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Margaret Uttley killed her husband Stephen Uttley on their Tarneit farm nine years ago, when he came home drunk late at night wielding a gun, and threatened to shoot her.
The court heard they struggled, and she accidentally shot him in the head.
The court heard she burnt his body and lied about the killing for seven years.
But she pleaded guilty to manslaughter earlier this month in the opening stages of her trial for murder.
She will serve a non-parole period of two years.'
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