A prisoner who beat his cellmate to death with a flat screen television has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for the “frenzied, one-sided attack”.
Jordan Palmer assaulted Terry Ojuederie, 42, from Watford, in their cell at HMP Peterborough on December 9 last year.
Jordan Palmer
Palmer, 26, had been smoking the synthetic cannabis substitute “spice” shortly before the attack.
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He was cleared of murder but found guilty of manslaughter by diminished responsibility at Peterborough Crown Court on Wednesday, following a two-and-a-half week trial.
At the sentencing today, the judge took into account the fact that Palmer was already serving a six-year stretch when imposing the sentence, which will run concurrently.
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