First published in print: Thursday, March 4, 2010
SCHENECTADY -- Nearly 18 months after killing his church-going wife with a hatchet, Yetraj "James" Mangar was sentenced to 15 years behind bars.
Acting Schenectady County Judge Richard Sise imposed the sentence on Wednesday after the Guyanese immigrant agreed to serve in exchange for pleading guilty to a lesser charge of first-degree manslaughter.
Mangar had faced a 25-years-to-life sentence if convicted of the top count, second-degree murder. He pleaded guilty in January.
Mangar, 61, was represented by Assistant Public Defender Kent Gebert.
Authorities said the couple had a history of domestic problems, and on the day Jaiwanti Mangar was found dead there were no signs of forced entry at the Division Street apartment they shared with their two adult sons and the sons' wives.
Sister Satie, as the 56-year-old Jaiwanti Mangar was known, died of a fractured skull and brain injuries from blunt force trauma on Oct. 25, 2008.
Several days after the crime, Mangar's cousin told the Times Union that Mangar told him he struck his sleeping wife with the back side of a hatchet.
-- Paul Nelson
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