Man sentenced to 28 years for killing East La Penitence woman

June Osborne

Dennis Wharton, who admitted to fatally chopping a woman with whom he claimed to have had a relationship, will serve the next 28 years in jail.
Justice Roxane George handed down the sentence to Wharton at the High Court yesterday, starting at 40 years but deducting six years for his guilty plea and six years for the time he had already served in prison.

Wharton, who had been charged with the murder of June Osborne,