Scott Newman, who murdered his partner, the late Trisha Lenny Poynter, last January, was sentenced today (Thursday) by the Beer Sheva District Court to 25 years in the mental health institution.
The panel of Beersheba District Court judges ruled that the defendant committed the act of murder and in light of the psychiatric opinion and the position of the parties’ counsel, acquitted the defendant of insanity in accordance with section 34H of the Penal Code.
Recall, according to the facts of the indictment, filed through my attorney Rothschild, on the morning of January 4, 2021, Newman and Pointer, members of the Hebrew community, were together in their apartment in Yeruham. Pointer prepared breakfast for her partner and arranged to go to work, then a verbal argument broke out between the couple, apparently out of jealousy, and while Pointer was about to go to work, Newman approached her from behind, grabbed her neck with both hands and strangled her intentionally causing her death. Pointer struggled with Newman, scratched him with her fingernails, grabbed a glass of glass candle in an attempt to stop him when during the fight the glass shattered on the floor.
The indictment states that as a result of Newman’s actions, the two fell to the living room floor. Pointer fell on her back and was hit in the hand by the glass shards of the glass while Newman leaned over her and continued to strangle her, until he caused her death. Newman then called the 100 police station and reported, “I committed a murder.”