Man, 82, sentenced to 8-and-a-half years' jail

Source: news.com.au

A FRAIL 82-year-old Tasmanian man will likely die behind bars after being sentenced to eight-and-a-half years for the killing of an alcoholic woman in Perth 20 years ago.

Ronald Leslie Pennington was found guilty by a Perth Supreme Court jury in Western Australia today of killing 41-year-old Cariad Anderson-Slater in July 1992.

He was found guilty on the alternative charge of manslaughter after a one-week murder trial.

Pennington was extradited from Tasmania last year after the skeletal remains of Mrs Anderson-Slater were unearthed from his former backyard in the western suburb of Woodvale.

Mrs Anderson-Slater, after a drunken argument with her husband, had taken a taxi to Pennington's house in the early hours of July 13, 1992.

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