Brian Walshe was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole after a Massachusetts jury found him guilty of killing and dismembering his wife, the mother of their three children, with the judge calling his acts "barbaric and incomprehensible."His wife, Ana Walshe, went missing on Jan.1, 2023, at the age of 39.
Her body has not been found.Brian Walshe, 50, pleaded guilty last month to improperly disposing of her body and lying to police following her disappearance.He had changed his plea on the two charges before jury selection got underway for the trial, while maintaining that he did not kill her.Brian Walshe murder trial: Jury finds husband guilty of killing and dismembering wifeA Norfolk County jury found Brian Walshe guilty of first-degree murder on Monday, after deliberating for approximately six hours over two days.He faced a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole after being convicted of first-degree murder.Judge Diane Freniere said that the sentence, the only appropriate sentence under the law, is "immensely appropriate and just, given your murderous acts and the life trauma that you've inflicted upon your own children."She said that because of his lies to police, "thousands of hours of investigative resources were wasted, diverted from other deserving cases," and that his "acts in dismembering your wife's body and disposing of her remains in multiple area dumpsters can only be described as barbaric and incomprehensible.""You had no regard for the lifelong mental harm that your criminal acts inflicted on your then 2-, 4- and 6-year-old sons," she said, noting that they will "never being able to properly grieve that loss to say goodbye to their mom."She handed down consecutive sentences on the three counts, with up to 20 years for lying to police and up to three years for illegally disposing of his wife's body.Brian Walshe appears in court for his sentencing on a first-degree murder charge in De...