Man convicted of killing ex-girlfriend

WOBURN, Mass. (AP) - A jury has convicted an Everett man of first-degree murder in the death of his former girlfriend, whose body was discovered in the trunk of her car.

Lesly Cheremond was immediately sentenced Monday to the automatic sentence of life in prison without the chance for parole.

He was also found guilty of aggravated rape.

The victim, 41-year-old Norma Dorce Gilles, was last seen Feb. 13, 2008 at the Malden hair salon where she worked.

Her car was located by Malden police two weeks later and her body was found in the trunk.

Prosecutors said Cheremond and Gilles had argued on the day before she was last seen.

An autopsy determined that Gilles was strangled.