Gary Richard Stephens, has been sentenced to nine years in prison by the Provincial Court in Murcia, found guilty by a jury of beating his business p

Gary Richard Stephens was found guilty of killing Jonathan Robert O'Neill by hitting him around the head with a hammer, after discovering he was having an affair with his wife.A British man, Gary Richard Stephens, has been sentenced to nine years in prison by the Provincial Court in Murcia, found guilty by a jury of beating his business partner to death with a hammer.It happened in November 2005 in the Playasol urbanisation in Mazarrón, which the two men were promoting.The magistrate, Álvaro Castaño gave his sentence, saying it was lower than normal as he had taken account of the fact that the man had acted in a fit of jealousy after he had just discovered that his business partner had started an affair with his wife, making the discovery by reading a text message on his partner’s mobile phone.Stephens pleaded guilty of killing his partner, Jonathan Robert O’Neill. After carrying out the killing he pretended to be his now dead partner, and sent several SMS messages from his phone saying he was going on a trip. He then buried the body in cement at the urbanisation the two men had been promoting.Stephens himself was finally arrested on December 6 2005 in Naples, after earlier lying low in the U.K.