A jealous ex-boyfriend, convicted of a near-fatal stabbing of the woman who spurned him and of setting off events that resulted in a man's death, was sentenced Monday to 30 years in prison. Trevor Frederick, 27, of East Hampton on Long Island, was sentenced on his March conviction, after a second trial, on charges of attempted murder, assault and burglary. The jury deadlocked on a second-degree murder charge. The first trial had ended in a mistrial in December after one of the jurors apparently had a nervous breakdown. Assistant District Attorney Robert Frazer said Frederick, a native of the Caribbean island of Grenada, committed the crimes while here illegally. Frederick was tried for a knife attack on Jenae Aragosa, now 22, a former Fashion Institute of Technology student from Yonkers, and Christopher Mariconi, 23, of Scotia, N.Y., in her Upper West Side apartment on Nov. 7, 2003. Frederick, who had left a voicemail threatening to kill Aragosa after she ended their yearlong relationship, barged into her apartment and plunged a kitchen knife into her neck, damaging her spinal cord, Frazer said. Frazer said Frederick then menaced Mariconi, forcing him backward until he went out of a window and fell five floors to his death. Frazer said Frederick pushed Mariconi out of the window. The defense said Marconi fell. Mariconi's mother, Robin, was allowed to speak. "You are evil and vile," she told Frederick, "and until the day I die I will never forgive you. You can rot in hell and I hope something terrible happens to you where you are going." Aragosa told the court she would have died but for the help of a neighbor. Initially paralyzed and told she might never walk again, Aragosa said she now has a limp and has had to teach her body how to do the simplest tasks. Aragosa also said she has survivor's guilt, believing that Mariconi would be alive today if she had not agreed to go out with him. She said her situation had driven her to try to kill herself, but her father found her in time. Mariconi's sister, Daniele, told Frederick he had "destroyed the hearts and minds of an innocent young man's family." "I'll never be an aunt, and I'll never have my brother's hand to give me away on my wedding day, things I've looked forward to since I was a little girl," she said. State Supreme Court Justice James Yates scheduled Frederick's next court date for April 27 for a status conference and possibly setting a trial date for the unresolved second-degree murder charge. Frazer said he had offered Frederick a plea deal in which the second-degree murder charge would be reduced to first-degree manslaughter. That would result in a 25-year sentence, to be served concurrently with the 30-year term. Reprinted from 1010wins.com