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Lengthy sentence in torture slaying

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February 05, 2010 9:45 AM

Scott Lawrence

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) - A man who admitted his role in a 2008 torture slaying in which the victim was bound and dumped in Galveston Bay must serve 41 years in prison.

A judge on Thursday sentenced 28-year-old Brian O'Neal Richardson, who had pleaded guilty to murder.

A co-defendant, 50-year-old William Henry Perry, was sentenced in October to 40 years in prison for his conviction in the killing of 39-year-old Gary Wayne Bell of Santa Fe.

Investigators say Bell was beaten, hogtied and asphyxiated in a hotel room and dumped into the bay in a dispute over treatment of a woman identified as Richardson's girlfriend.

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Information from: The Galveston County Daily News,

http://www.galvnews.com

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sarge718

2:33 PM on February 5, 2010

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40 and 41 years are just not enough. the poor guy was tortured! if there is any justice at all these two guys will be tortured in prison.

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lktx009

3:04 PM on February 5, 2010

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Further details seem to be lacking..So they just beat the crap
out of this guy over "treatment of one's girlfriend"?? I don't see
that as motive. These two are bound to have something they are not
coming clean with... Seems fishy.. Poor guy!