Brendan Banfield sentenced to life for killing wife, stranger

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June 5 (UPI) -- Brendan Banfield, a Virginia man convicted of killing his wife and a stranger in a plot with an au pair, was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole. "The level of cruelty, calculation and inhumanity in this case reflects something far deeper than anger or impulse -- it reflects evil, which is why I carry no burden and find no hesitation in sentencing you to life," CNN reported Judge Penney S. Azcarate said. Banfield, 40, and au pair Juliana Peres Magalhães, 26, were