Killer Colin Hadley Reifer was given a starting sentence of 15 years for strangling his estranged wife to death when he reappeared in the No. 5A Supreme Court yesterday. However, after a number of deductions, he will serve a remaining five years, 44 days in prison. Reifer, now 66, a contractor, of Sunset Drive North, Fort George Heights, St Michael, had pleaded guilty to unlawfully killing his wife Cheryl Bourne-Reifer …
Colin Hadley Reifer declared to police on more than one occasion that he loved his wife “dearly” and that he had no intention to kill her. However, he claimed the woman was beating him and he held her by the throat, as they were fighting, in self-defence. This was part of the facts read to the No. 5A Supreme Court when Reifer appeared there yesterday. Reifer, now 66, a contractor, …