New York:
In a gruesome case, a 31-year-old man in New York has been sentenced to life in prison for killing a woman and then sleeping with her decomposing body for two days, a media report said.
Michael Lenahan was sent to jail for life by the Manhattan Supreme Court for the 2007 murder of Lorna Santiago, 24, in the Confucius Plaza apartment in Chinatown he shared with his ailing grandmother, the 'New York Post' reported.
Prosecutors told the court that after murdering Santiago, Lenahan spent two days surfing websites that dealt with sadomasochism and how to preserve dead bodies - and buying booze on her credit card.
In fact, when the body was finally discovered - by his mother - Lenahan lied to cops that he'd choked her to death "accidentally", and had only intended to stop her from screaming and hitting him during an argument, the report said.
"I'm far from a perfect person, but I am a good person. I am extremely sorry and extremely remorseful for what happened," Lenahan was quoted by the newspaper as telling the court.