R Kelly prison attacker gets life sentence for murders
A gang member who claims to have beaten R
Kelly in jail has received a life imprisonment for a racketeering conviction
involving two murders.
Jeremiah Farmer, 39, was sentenced in an
Indiana court after representing himself and appearing combative, according to
reports.
Farmer was convicted for conspiracy to
commit racketeering activity in a drug-related case that involved the 1999
murders of Marion Lowry, 74, and Harvey Siegers, 67.
Both were beaten to death with a hammer at
their business place which repeatedly had run-ins with Farmer’s Latin Kings
gang.
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Farmer is said to have repeatedly hit R
Kelly in the head in his cell at Chicago’s Metropolitan Correctional Center in
August.
Kelly, who has maintained his innocence,
faces dozens of sexual misconduct charges including sexual assault and a
racketeering scheme to supply him with girls.