NASSAU- A man who killed his wife and wounded his mother-in-law in a vicious cutlass attack has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Philip Coleman Dean, 65, hacked his wife, Eleanor, to death at her mother’s house in Taits, Long Island on September 1, 2017.
The couple had separated and Mrs Dean moved in with her mother.
Dean couldn’t accept this and ambushed the 54-year-old mother-of-seven in a frenzied cutlass attack when she arrived home.
When Dean’s mother-in-law, Hilda Taylor, tried to help her daughter, he chopped her arm and fled the home.
Police arrested Dean a day later and recovered the murder weapon.
Dean was charged with murder and attempted murder and remanded to prison.
He remained there for three years, five months and five days before he was granted bail.
As part of the plea deal, Dean pleaded guilty to murder and the reduced charges of causing dangerous harm.
Justice Gregory Hilton deducted the time Dean had spent on remand from the overall sentence.
Dean’s sentence could be further reduced by a third for good behavior.
T’shura Ambrose prosecuted and Patrick Mackey represented Dean.
