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| Ex-Wife Says She's Ready For Husband's Release From Prison |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 07/15/2002 |
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A man who has served more than 13 years in a New York prison for terrorizing his ex-wife has been released from prison. Charles Hili, 68, was sentenced on a new charge by U.S. District Chief Judge William K. Sessions III to time already served and three years of supervised release, according to the U.S. Attorney's office. After serving 12 years in prison for attempting to send a bomb to his former wife, who was in Scotland at the time, Hili pleaded guilty March 4 to a further charge of mailing her a threatening communication in 1997. He was detained pending trial in September 2000, and the time served amounts to 21 months from the date he was detained. According to the U.S. Attorney's office, the supervised release that Sessions ordered included ''a number of conditions aimed at preventing further harassment of the victim, Hili's ex-wife.'' The ex-wife, who lives in Brattleboro, Vermont, told the Brattleboro Reformer in March that she was ''digging in for women.'' ''I'm not going to budge one inch. I'm damned well sick of it,'' she said. ''I've got guts and I'm not moving. I've climbed out from under the rubble, I lost everything, and I'm not climbing out again. I'm staying put.'' Hili was convicted in a New York state court in 1989 of building a bomb designed to be sent to his then-wife. The bomb was placed inside a tape player, and was designed to detonate when the play button was pushed. Hili was scheduled to be released in September 2000, after serving his maximum sentence. After Hili's conviction, according to the FBI, he contacted a credit agency to trace his ex-wife, smuggled an explosive substance into prison, and on a number of occasions, undertakers were sent to his ex-wife's family's home in Scotland to pick up a dead body. Court documents include numerous letters threatening his former wife with death and dismemberment. In August 2000, an inmate at the Shawangunk Correctional Facility in New York told officials that Hili was planning to send mail bombs to his ex-wife, to FBI agents who had testified against him and to 12 unknown individuals he would pick out of the phone book upon his release from prison. |
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