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isanyokel

The young woman saw the gravy train fast disappearing,obviously he choose the
wrong time/place to mention a divorce.He also seems to be a heavy set chap,
so she all alone killedhim,put him in a sack,burnt him and then buried him in the
sand.Powerful girl!!!!


Wife, 28, bludgeoned millionaire husband, 76, to death with a giant pestle after he asked for a divorce



By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 5:30 PM on 03rd November 2009

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The young wife of a British millionaire who bludgeoned him to death after he asked for a divorce has been found guilty of murder.
Nigerian-born Kate Artori West, 28, smashed William West, 76, over the head with a giant pestle used in African cooking, then set him on fire before burying him in a sack.
Reports at the time suggest that Mr West could still have been alive when he was set on fire.
West has been jailed for life after a three-year long trial in Gambia this week. She was, however, spared the death penalty.

Kate Artori West, 28, has been found guilty of murdering her 76-year-old husband William West



Enlarge Kate West pictured at a police station in Banjul, Gambia, two years ago

William West's charred body was found near the couple's luxury home on the Gambian coast in July 2006 just days into a holiday with his wife of six years.

His wife, a Nigerian national, was just 20 when she married the computer tycoon from Hastings in East Sussex in 2000.

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West has been held in custody in Gambia for the past thee years as her trial stopped and started because of legal wrangles.

But today West - who stood to inherit millions from her husband - has been jailed for life.

Gambian cops said that Mr West had died of severe head injuries caused by being struck with a giant pestle before being set on fire and buried in the sand in a black bin liner at the luxury beach resort in Sanyang.

Mr West, who left millions of pounds in his will to his new wife - including a plush £750,000 home in Hastings - is believed to have been planning to tell her that he wanted a divorce during their holiday.

Assistant Police Supt of the Gambian police Aziz Bojang said in July 2006: 'The conditions of Mr West's remains were so horrible. His body was very badly burned.'

He added: 'We are still trying to determine the motive for the killing and there is every reason to believe his wife would clearly benefit through his death.'

He confirmed that Mr West 'could have been alive' when he was set on fire.

West initially admitted the murder, but changed her plea later saying that Gambian police had beaten the confession out of her.

She had told Brikama High Court in Gambia that police had tortured her with electric cable and beat her.

Sitting before Judge Ngui Mboob-Janneh, West told the court earlier this year that she had 'never written a confession', adding: 'After coming back from Sanyang, then they took me to Palma Rima Hotel where there is a police station.'

She said that after arriving at the police station she was tortured into confession, telling the court she had 'electric wire administered to her body' and was beaten until 'blood was coming from her mouth and nose'.

She then alleges that a man in a black uniform from the paramilitary police came into the police cell and beat her up.

She told the court: 'He (the paramilitary policeman) found me sitting and used his boots and pushed me until I fell down and then lifted me.

'I was crying and I did not see them until the next day and I spent the night in the dark room.' She said that when quizzed about her millionaire husband she told police she didn't know where Mr West was.

She said: 'I was asked about the whereabouts of my husband and I replied to the officer that I knew nothing about him.'

West flew home to Britain from Gambia on July 4 2006 - the day after Mr West vanished - and then returned to Gambia on July 19 to report him missing.

She initially claimed he had disappeared after popping into a cigar store on a day trip to Senegal.

Irish-born Mr West, who made a fortune from running his own computer business, was a widower when he met his second wife on holiday in Gambia in 2000. His first wife, Doris, died in 1994.

According to friends of Mr West he was planning on divorcing his African wife and had planned to tell her their marriage was over during their holiday to Gambia.

One source said at the time: 'It hadn't been going well for some time. The age difference was really beginning to show itself and William was totally under the thumb.

'He's said that he was taking Kate on holiday to tell her he wanted a divorce.'

Mr West married Kate just six months after meeting her in 2000.

A police spokesman in the Gambian capital city of Banjul confirmed that Gambia had reintroduced the death penalty in 1996 and that West could have faced the firing squad.

Read more: Wife guilty of bludgeoning millionaire husband to death after he asked for a divorce | Mail Online

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StrontiumDog

She sounds delightful.

crazy dog

Been out with a few Gambians and also one Nigerian, all crap in bed, the Gambians were all circumcised so don't feel a thing. My best mate married a Ugandan and she is a tight fisted money grabbing cow who would probably do him in for the money if she could get away with it. These darkies could even teach the money loving Thai whores a thing or two.

kovanovski71

She aint gonna do much with those millions now!

chitown

He should have come to Thailand to find a sweet wife that would never had done something like this.

Rural Surin

Never ever.....thank goodness for hidden wonders.

crazy dog

True, he would either have been pushed off a balcony, or shot by a passing hit man on a motorbike.

Sakeopete

That never happens in Thailand, falls from balcony s are suicides and drive by shootings are accidents no doubt the fault of the farang for not staying in their hotel room.

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