SOUTHLAND : Sister Killer Gets 3 Years Probation

An 84-year-old woman convicted of beating her older sister to death was sentenced today to three years’ probation confined to her retirement home.

Santa Monica Superior Court Judge Robert Thomas imposed the sentence on Edna Lamont, a widowed piano teacher who was convicted in November of involuntary manslaughter. Lamont beat to death her sister, Mary McBride, 86, who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease. Lamont told police her sister died in a fall March 12 at the home they shared in West Los Angeles, but an autopsy revealed the victim died as a result of “multiple injuries due to blunt-force trauma.”