Crime scene investigator, 42, is sentenced to 16 years in prison for beating camgirl wife to death with a bottle - after phone's health app proved he'd taken 18 steps when he said he was fast asleep William Jeffrey West, 47, was sentenced on Monday over the 2018 death of his 42-year-old wife Kathleen Dawn West West will get credit for the three years he has spent in jail since his arrest In November, Jeff West was convicted of reckless manslaughter The former Birmingham-Southern College campus police officer was facing a maximum of 20 years in prison Kathleen was found dead on the street outside the couple's home in 2018