The Queens lawyer who was recently convicted of murdering and torturing his ex-girlfriend in 2012 has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Last month, University of Florida law school graduate Jason Bohn, 35, was found guilty of brutally murdering and torturing girlfriend Danielle Thomas in their Astoria apartment in June 2012. Prosecutors said Bohn repeatedly abused the 27-year-old Thomas during the course of their relationship, finally throwing her against a wall, beating and strangling her to death, leaving her body cold in an ice-filled bathtub, and sending text messages to her friends from her phone. The murder was captured on a pocket-dial voicemail left on a friend's phone.
Today, Bohn was handed a life sentence by Judge Michael Aloise. Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown issued the following statement [PDF]:
The defendant has been held accountable for his actions andn will spend the rest of his life in prisonAt trial, the jury listened to harrowing evidence - including a recording during which the victim begged for her life as the defendant tortured and ultimately killed her - and returned a verdict of first-degree murder, finding that ‘the defendant acted in an especially cruel and wanton manner pursuant to a course of conduct intended to inflict and inflicting torture upon the victim prior to the victim’s death.
During the trial, prosecutors presented two handwritten notes in which Bohn had allegedly confessed to the murder. According to one: "I had been drinking and I was drunk when I got home. She was already asleep. I woke up and there was fighting between us, and when I woke up again she was unconscious. I am sorry.” Another read, "Dani, I will love you forever."
Shortly after Bohn's conviction, Thomas's family filed a $10 million lawsuit against the NYPD alleging the police ignored Thomas's frantic phone call to 911 shortly before she was killed. "Life will never be good for me ever again,” Jaime Thomas-Bright. Thomas's mother, said in a victim impact statement at today's sentencing hearing. “I’ll never get to be a grandmother and, Judge Aloise, I think I would have been a great grandma. I dread getting old."
