Ex-Northwestern prof gets 53 years for killing boyfriend

CHICAGO (AP) — A choose sentenced a former Northwestern College professor to 53 years in jail Tuesday for the 2017 stabbing loss of life of his boyfriend.

Prepare dinner County Decide Charles Burns referred to as the killing of Trenton Cornell-Duranleau “cold-blooded” and an “execution” as he sentenced Wyndham Lathem, 47, who was discovered responsible of first-degree homicide in October.

Cornell-Duranleau was stabbed greater than 70 instances on July 27, 2017, by Lathem and Andrew Warren, a British man who Lathem had paid to come back to Chicago to commit the homicide collectively, prosecutors stated.

Northwestern fired Lathem, a famend microbiologist, after he fled the Chicago space following the killing.

Lathem testified throughout his trial that Warren alone stabbed Cornell-Duranleau throughout what began as a methamphetamine-fueled sexual encounter involving the three males.

Warren in 2019 pleaded responsible to homicide underneath a plea settlement that referred to as for him to testify towards Lathem in trade for receiving a 45-year jail sentence.

Warren, who was an Oxford College monetary officer on the time of the slaying, testified that he flew from England to Chicago to satisfy Lathem and participate in a pact to kill one another earlier than agreeing to kill Cornell-Duranleau at Lathem’s suggestion.

He testified that he did, actually, stab Cornell-Duranleau, however solely after Lathem had already begun stabbing him.