Evil ex-IRS agent Brendan Banfield sentenced to life in prison for murdering wife and stranger

A judge slammed ex-IRS special agent Brendan Banfield as pure “evil” as she sentenced him to life behind bars without parole Friday for killing his wife and a sex-seeking stranger in a twisted plot he cooked up with his Brazilian au pair lover.The 40-year-old former fed stared ahead stoically as Chief Judge Penney Azcarate handed down the sentence — after he gave a bizarre statement whining that he’s “disappointed in the legal system” and insisting he’s “not responsible” for the murder.“The level of cruelty, calculation and inhumanity in this case reflects something far deeper than anger or impulse, it reflects evil,” Azcarate said, adding he’s shown no remorse.“You still think you are the smartest person in the room.”Banfield was convicted by a jury in Fairfax, Virginia in February of stabbing his 37-year-old wife Christine and shooting Joseph Ryan, 38.Ryan was lured to the couple’s Herndon home under the false pretense of a sexual encounter with the wife as part of a convoluted frame-job, jurors heard at the sordid three-week trial.Christine’s heartbroken sister, Danielle Hawker, testified Friday about the gut-wrenching grief she suffered over her loved one’s tragic death — calling it a “soul-crushing loss.”“I envisioned Christine’s fear, her terror and wished I was there to take her place.

I no longer had a sister.I was no longer a sister,” she said.“Some days I feel like I’m living with a ticking time bomb waiting for it to explode, [with] fear and anxiety taking over my mind,” she said.Hawker then called out Banfield for lies he’d told about her sister over the course of the investigation and trial.“He attempted to smear her through outright lies and victim blaming,” she said, adding that Christine was a loving and devoted nurse.

“As Christine sister, I didn’t just lose her.I had to sit and listen to a version of her that did not exist.At the sentencing hearing, Ryan’s mother, Deirdre Fisher, a...