Jesse Matthew gets 3 life sentences for 2005 sex assault, abduction
By Greg Botelho and Sarah Jorgensen, CNN
Sat October 3, 2015
(CNN)Jesse Matthew still must await his fate in connection to the disappearance and death of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham. But whatever happens there, he now looks set to spend the rest of his life behind bars.
A judge sentenced Matthew, 33, to three life sentences Friday for a 2005 incident in which grabbed a 26-year-old woman as she was returning from a Fairfax, Virginia, grocery store and sexually assaulted her, the county's Commonwealth Attorney Raymond Morrogh told CNN
Jesse Matthew gets 3 life terms for brutal Fairfax sex assault
By Justin Jouvenal October 2
Jesse L. Matthew Jr., 33, abducted, sexually assaulted and attempted to kill a woman in an attack that Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge David S. Schell called vicious and brutal. Schell handed down the maximum punishment a life term in each of the three counts for which Matthew was convicted.
The violence of these offenses was extreme, Schell said.
Matthew showed little emotion as the sentence was read to a packed courtroom that included the parents of Graham and Harrington, but his mother sobbed and yelled: I hope you rot in hell.