{"id":322646,"date":"2024-12-06T06:51:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T12:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=322646"},"modified":"2024-12-05T00:21:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T06:21:28","slug":"man-sentenced-stabbing-pregnant-mistress-refused-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/man-sentenced-stabbing-pregnant-mistress-refused-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced to prison for stabbing pregnant mistress to death after she refused abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On August 1, 2023, a pregnant UK woman was stabbed to death by her married boyfriend, the father of her child. Just over a year after her death, her murderer has been <\/span>sentenced<\/span><\/a> to a minimum of 27 years in prison for murder and “child destruction<\/span>.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Birmingham Crown Court found Filmon Andmichaen, 31, <\/span>guilty<\/span><\/a> of killing Liwam Bereket, 26, and the couple’s preborn baby girl (at 27 weeks gestation)<\/span>. After a delayed trial, his sentence was finally handed down on November 27, 2024. <\/span><\/p>\n

Bereket had reportedly been looking hopefully into her future as a mother, while Andmichaen had other ideas about fatherhood. Andmichaen had a wife from Uganda whom he had married just a year prior; he pressured Bereket to have an abortion to cover up the affair, but she refused.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The BBC<\/a> reported, “Jurors deliberated for nearly three and a half hours before returning unanimous guilty verdicts. This was Andmichaen’s second trial after the first collapsed in March due to issues over the child destruction charge.”<\/p>\n

According to The Pinnacle Gazette, her friends and family said she was a \u201cbeautiful soul\u201d and that she <\/span>saw her preborn baby as \u201cwholly precious<\/span><\/a>.\u201d Witnesses stated that Andmichaen was aggressive and abusive to Bereket, and noted they had seen him punch her in the face weeks before he stabbed her to death.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On the day of the murder, Andmichaen reportedly led Bereket to a secluded, wooded area and fatally stabbed her in the neck, and then let her bleed to death; jurors were told she showed signs of life for up to two hours after. Thinking ahead to prevent any calls for help, Andmichaen had confiscated Bereket’s phone and wallet and tried to hide them in his car. <\/span><\/p>\n

He also hid the murder weapon, which investigators have yet to recover.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n