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Economist Gets 6 Years for Dismembering Wife

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From Reuters

Economist Nicholas Boyce was sent to prison Wednesday for dismembering his wife and dumping the pieces of her body around London in a court case linked to a British aristocratic mystery, the 1974 disappearance of Lord Lucan.

A jury at London’s Old Bailey court cleared Boyce, 37, of murdering his wife, Christabel, but convicted him of manslaughter in a furious domestic row over his sexual prowess. He was sentenced him to six years in jail.

Christabel, 32, was a former governess to the children of Lord Lucan, who vanished without a trace after another nanny was battered to death at his home in London’s Belgravia district. Police the world over have sought vainly to track down the missing peer.

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