A Pennsylvania man has been found guilty of savagely beating his girlfriend.
After a weeklong trial, Leroy Brahm III, 33, was convicted of first-degree murder, multiple counts of aggravated assault, simple assault and recklessly endangering another person in connection with the death of 21-year-old Annabel Meenan, according to a news release from the Chester County District Attorney’s Office. .
Prosecutors said Brahm “savagely beat” Meenan on multiple occasions leading up to her death on Dec. 4, 2021, and many of the brutal beatings were captured on home security video that Brahm installed in the mobile home trailer he shared. with Meenan, whom he met when she was in high school.
“The defendant incomprehensibly, brutally and systematically beat his girlfriend to death during the night,” District Attorney Christopher L. de Barrena-Sarobe said in a statement after the verdict. “The jury rightly found the defendant guilty on all counts of the indictment.”
Annabelle Meenan.
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Prosecutors argued during the trial that Brahm became jealous because of a relationship he and Meenan had with a man they went on an ocean cruise with in late summer 2021, according to the Daily Local News.
“He ended up with Annabel choosing another man over her,” Deputy District Attorney Kathleen Wright told the jury, according to the Daily Local News. “He wanted to regain control over her.”
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Leroy Brahm.
Chester County District Attorney
Prosecutors said that on the night of her death, Brahm repeatedly beat her, stomped on her head, threw a couch at her, sat on the couch and then fell asleep, the Daily Local News reported.
“She died a painful and brutal death,” Wright said.
East Vincent Township Police were called to a Spring City trailer on Dec. 4, 2021, following a report of a medical emergency.
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Meenan was found lying on the living room floor “with cuts and extensive bruising to her face, chest, arms and legs,” according to a police news release at the time.
“Doctors told investigators the victim had extensive head and facial injuries and lacerations and bruising to the rest of her body, including her arms, legs, torso and pelvis,” the press release said.
Inside the home, investigators found “blood stains on the kitchen walls, a broken glass oven door, a hole in the wall and the victim’s damaged cell phone on the floor,” according to the news release. “The defendant’s hand, finger and elbow were bruised and swollen.”
Meenan was taken to Phoenixville Hospital, where she died.
The medical examiner concluded that Meenan died of cardiac arrest due to the consumption of cocaine and alcohol, but the cardiac arrest was caused by the severe beating she suffered, the Daily Local News reports.
Brahm’s attorney argued that Meenana’s death was not premeditated and that prosecutors could not be certain that her death was not the result of cocaine use, according to Philadelphia Inquirer.
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