KEENE — Armando Barron is going to prison for the rest of his life for murdering Keene’s Jonathan Amerault, and then forcing his wife, Britany Barron to cut the head off Amerault’s corpse.
“(You’re) a creature not even worthy of a glance from me,” Justine Amerault, the victim’s mother, said during the sentencing hearing held in the Cheshire Superior Court on Friday. “The last hours of Jonathan’s beautiful life were in the company of this ugly, hideous, demented creature.”
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