Kennedi Westcarr-Sabaroche, 25, was found dead in a Vauxhall car in Whiston Road, Hackney, on 6 April last year, having been strangled. Her boyfriend, Gogoa Lois Tape, 28, admitted manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility and possession of a knife. Inner London Crown Court heard he used cannabis and had undiagnosed schizophrenia at the time of the attack. Tape was handed a hospital order under the Mental Health Act, which could lead to indefinite detention. About 40 of the victim's loved ones attended sentencing. The victim's mother said the child "still asks for her mummy" and described the family as shattered.
A man who killed his partner in a car in east London and drove her body around before confessing to his brother hours later has been sentenced to a hospital order. Kennedi Westcarr-Sabaroche, 25, was found dead in the Vauxhall car in Whiston Road, Hackney, on 6 April last year, having been strangled. Her boyfriend, Gogoa Lois Tape, 28, previously admitted manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility and carrying a knife.
"She was a bright and beautiful young woman, I heard, and still only 25. "That daughter - her daughter and your daughter - is left motherless and the victim of what you did, not just at the time, but she has to carry that around with her, her whole life - her father killed her mother. "The family is, I learned, and it is obvious, left shattered and broken."
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