L/Cpl Joseph Scott Pemberton sentenced to up to 12 years in prison for killing Jennifer Laude in hotel room final yearA court in the Philippines has convicted a US marine of killing a Filipino in a hotel final year after he discovered she was a transgender woman. He was on a break after participating in joint military exercises in the country.
L/Cpl Joseph Scott Pemberton was convicted on Tuesday of murder by first strangling Jennifer Laude and then dunking her head into a toilet bowl in the hotel they had checked into after meeting in a disco bar in Olongapo city, north-west of Manila. Court receptionist Gerry Gruspe said Pemberton had been sentenced to up to 12 years in jail.
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Source: theguardian.com