A person who pressured his ex-girlfriend to stroll via Allston carrying solely a bra will spend 10 years in jail on drug and firearms prices.
A Suffolk Superior Court jury has convicted Jonathan Whigham, 34, of unlawful possession of a firearm, unlawful possession of ammunition, unlawful carrying of a loaded weapon, assault with a harmful weapon (brass knuckles), possession of a Class B substance with intent to distribute and resisting arrest, however was cleared of assorted different assault prices.
On Friday, Judge Sarah Ellis ordered Whigham to serve 10 years in state jail to be adopted by 5 years of supervised launch throughout which he’s to keep away from the sufferer and undergo GPS monitoring.
“This was not an easy case, and the strength of the victim’s testimony along with the excellent work by the prosecution and victim advocate team led to the guilty verdicts,” mentioned Suffolk DA Kevin Hayden. “While we would have preferred guilty on all counts, we’re pleased that this man has been held accountable with a considerable sentence.”
Prosecutor Alyssa Tochka described a harrowing scene between Whigham and his then-girlfriend on Aug. 22, 2020, that led to those prices.
In a room on the Farrington Inn in Allston, Whigham allegedly held a semi-automatic pistol to the girl’s head and pulled the set off, however no bullet was fired, Tochka wrote. He then struck her within the head with the weapon, earlier than beating her and ripping her garments off right down to solely a bra earlier than shoving her out the door.
“While the defendant was attacking the victim in the hotel room, she was on the phone with her mother crying, telling her that she loved her,” Tochka wrote, including that the mom then known as 9-1-1 on her daughter’s behalf.
When police arrived, in accordance with the assertion, they discovered the pair exterior the room, with the sufferer carrying only a bra. Whigham, carrying a fanny pack, shoved a backpack into the girl’s arms and started strolling away.
An officer frisked the bag and located a gun wrapped in a sock contained in the backpack, at which level Whigham started to run and needed to be tackled by officers. A search of the fanny pack turned up 24 individually wrapped baggage of crack cocaine, a scale and brass knuckles.
Whigham was held with out bail following his preliminary arraignment within the case however was launched to house confinement in November 2020 on a COVID-19 movement with the stipulation that he don’t have any contact with the sufferer, however Tochka wrote that he positioned the sufferer and her mom within the Nubian Square MBTA station shortly after launch and allegedly provided them a chilling message.
“He approached them and stated something to the effect of ‘(expletive referring to women) thought they was gonna tell on me and they thought they was gonna get away with it,’” the prosecutor wrote, “followed by a gun gesture with his hand and proclaiming ‘boom boom boom.’”
Source: www.bostonherald.com”