Man with mental health history sentenced to more than 2 decades in wife’s slaying with meat cleaver

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Man with mental health history sentenced to more than 2 decades in wife's slaying with meat cleaver

A Vermont man with a history of mental health issues who was convicted of killing his wife with a meat cleaver and injuring his mother-in-law will serve at least 27 years in prison.

apnews.com

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont man with a history of mental health issues who was convicted of killing his wife with a meat cleaver and injuring his mother-in-law will serve at least 27 years in prison.

“It was an accident,” Aita Gurung said during his two-day sentencing hearing, which concluded Wednesday. “My mind was not working.”

A jury convicted Gurung last year of killing his wife, Yogeswari Khadka, 32, in Burlington, and attempted second-degree murder in the attack on his mother-in-law, hours after he had sought mental health treatment at a local hospital.

The attacks happened in 2017 and he was charged. But the charges were dropped in 2019 by the county prosecutor, who said evidence showed Gurung was legally insane at the time. Then-Attorney General T.J. Donovan refiled the charges months later after Republican Gov. Phil Scott asked him to review the case. Donovan said he wanted to restore public trust and that the issue of insanity should be decided by a jury.
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Nuts.

 

[Northern Light]

I don't see the point of putting him a regular prison population vs. a mental asylum. Oh right, we don't have those anymore.

Clearly the mental health system completely failed this guy and his family. He even tried to seek help.

What a way to die though... by meat cleaver