Minor sentenced to 12 years for Locker killing

Kenneth Minor, the Harlem resident who helped Woodmere resident Jeffrey Locker kill himself as part of a suicide-for-hire insurance scheme in 2008, said he was sorry as Manhattan state Supreme Court Judge Laura Ward sentenced Minor to 12 years in prison on Oct. 20.
Minor was convicted of second-degree murder in 2011 and sentenced to 20 years to life, but the conviction was overturned two years later based on incorrect instructions given to the jury by the judge during that trial. He claimed that he held the knife and Locker thrust his body onto the blade.
Locker, a motivational speaker, was shown during the initial trial to be in substantial debt, and shortly before he was killed had purchased a $12 million life insurance policy and had a total of $18 million in life insurance. Neither policy would pay out for suicide.