Man sentenced to life in jail for murder of his wife
A married couple is locked up for life after a judge found them guilty of murdering their first wife and dumping her body in a river.
James and Helen Riechman, 30, had been married for 14 years and were expecting their first child when they committed the heinous crime, according to the Sun Herald.
Held: James and Helen Riechman, 30, were sentenced to life in jail for murder of their first wife, Maria
They admitted their act of revenge, saying they were jealous she was pregnant and had changed jobs.
The couple were given 10-and-a-half years each, with no chance of parole if they were caught again.
The trial he더킹카지노ard that the pair split up and married on November 26 last year, two years before the killings.
A witness told police she had seen the couple walking along the beach near their apartment in the village of Barra Rua with Maria, then 23 months pregnant.
After their marriage, she told a neighbour she thought she was seeing someone who was ‘crazy’ and called police after hearing screams coming from the bedroom.
The police officer, named as Mrs Riechman’s sister Margaret, told the Guardian: ‘It’s shocking. This is something we wouljarvees.comd never condone.’
During the trial, prosecution lawyer Richard McArdle QC toljarvees.comd the court that the couple had been’mad at each other and mad at society’ for years.
Mr McArdle also claimed the couple ‘just lost it’.
He said: ‘You get caught with your trousers around your ankles and you don’t know how people are going to react to that.’
Mr Riechman, of Sandhurst, Somerset, was born to a divorced mother in 1993.