A heartless killer who beheaded his mentor after stealing nearly $400,000 from him to impress his French lover told a Manhattan judge that he should spend the rest of his life behind bars.
According to the New York Post, convicted killer Tyrese Haspil was slapped with a 40-years-to-life sentence in the 2020 Lower East Side murder and decapitation of tech CEO Fahim Saleh after he bizarrely broke with his attorney in a dramatic moment that shocked the court.
Haspil had listened to his lawyer argued in court Tuesday for nearly an hour that the 50-year-life sentence prosecutors wanted for him was way too harsh — then the defendant asked to speak.
“Unlike my counsel, I don’t think anything less than life without parole would be appropriate,” he told Judge April Newbauer, stunning the courtroom.
The shocking announcement marked an end to the gruesome case and often strange court proceedings.
