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A self-styled preacher who wants to claim his wife's life insurance has been sentenced on Friday to 10 years in prison for persuading her to kill herself in an Australian-first conviction.
Graham Morant, 69, was convicted by a Queensland state Supreme Court Jury in October on charges of counseling and aiding his wife Jennifer Morant to suicide at their Gold Coast city home in 2014.
While people have been convicted before the law, they have been convicted in Australia before the courts.
Each conviction carries a potential life prison sentence.
The judge is sentenced to a total of 10 years in prison on both convictions and ordered to be eligible for parole.
Jennifer Morant was suffering from chronic pain and depression when she took her life.
Davis rejected the husband's claim that he had acted through compbadion for his 56-year-old wife, finding the motivation to collect 1.4 million Australian dollars ($ 1 million) from three life insurance policies. Prosecutors told the court the spouse wanted to spend the insurance on a common religious building.
"Mrs. Morant was a vulnerable person, "Davis said. "You took advantage of those vulnerabilities in order to persuade her to kill herself and help her so much."
Davis said Morant had shown no remorse for his actions and his wife had died in a lonely place.
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