Saed News: The children of Kouri Richins, a 35-year-old American writer who has been convicted of murdering her husband, have demanded that their mother be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.
According to SAEDNEWS, Kouri Richins’ sons, a Utah-based writer, said ahead of her sentencing hearing that they would feel unsafe if their mother were released from prison after being convicted of killing their father in March.
Richins, 35, is facing several decades in prison up to life imprisonment after being convicted of five felonies, including murder. Prosecutors said Kouri poisoned her husband, Eric Richins, in 2022 at their home near Park City, Utah, by lacing his drink with a lethal dose of fentanyl five times stronger than normal. Shortly before her arrest in 2023, she published a book about a boy coping with his father’s death.
The statements from the sons, who were 9, 7, and 5 years old at the time of their father’s death, were included in a note submitted by prosecutors asking the judge to sentence their mother to life without parole.
The eldest son, now 13, said he wants the court to know that he does not miss his mother. He said: “I am afraid that if she is released, she will come after me, my brothers, and my entire family. I think she will come and take us and do bad things to us, like harming us.”
According to The Guardian, prosecutors said Richins, who was also a real estate agent and ran a property buying and selling business, was millions of dollars in debt and was planning a future with another man. She had secretly taken out several life insurance policies on her husband and wrongly believed she would inherit more than $4 million after his death.
Her murder conviction alone carries a sentence ranging from 25 years to life, or life without parole. Prosecutors did not seek the death penalty.
The jury also convicted Richins of other crimes, including insurance fraud, forgery, and attempted murder, after she tried to poison her husband weeks earlier on Valentine’s Day using a fentanyl-laced sandwich that caused him to collapse.
Kouri Richins also faces more than 10 additional financial-related charges in a separate case that has not yet gone to trial.
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