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\n<\/span><\/p>\nA New York man has been convicted of murdering an indebted motivational speaker who prosecutors said paid his attacker to stab him dead in his car.<\/p>\n
Kenneth Minor testified that he held the knife against the steering wheel while author and business coach Jeffrey Locker plunged his body on to it.<\/p>\n
Locker was deep in debt and hoped to stage his own murder so his family could collect $18m (\u00a311m) insurance.<\/p>\n
“This was murder for money, not a mercy killing,” prosecutor Cyrus Vance said.<\/p>\n
Minor faces life in prison after a jury found him guilty on Thursday of second-degree murder.<\/p>\n
On 16 July 2009, Locker, 52, was found stabbed to death in his car in the East Harlem neighbourhood of New York City’s Manhattan borough, his hands tied behind his back.<\/p>\n
Minor was arrested five days later. Surveillance video showed him entering Locker’s car the night of the killing and using the dead man’s bank card later.<\/p>\n
Appeal planned<\/span><\/p>\nA medical examiner testified Locker had been stabbed seven times by someone next to him in the car.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors said Minor, a 38-year-old father of two with a history of drug arrests, had agreed to kill Locker for money after Locker approached him on a street, miles from his suburban home.<\/p>\n
Locker had fallen victim to a Ponzi scheme and was deeply in debt. Prosecutors said he had purchased an $18m life insurance policy payable to his family.<\/p>\n
Daniel Gotlin, Minor’s lawyer, said he planned to appeal.<\/p>\n
In his closing arguments, he said his client had been taken advantage of by a persuasive smooth-talker, adding that Minor was “no contract killer”.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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