WHITE PLAINS – A 43-year-old New Rochelle man was sentenced on Thursday to life in state prison without parole for the

Kenya Tilford was convicted of murder for torturing and then suffocating her intimate partner, Concetta Morton.

“There are no words that can adequately convey the horrors experienced by Concetta Morton at the hands of the defendant, who tortured her with deliberate cruelty for three months before suffocating her to death,” said Westchester County District Attorney Susan Cacace.

The DA said with this sentence, “Ms. Morton may finally rest in peace, and that the Dunn family may find a small measure of comfort knowing she has finally achieved the justice in the afterlife that was denied to her during her brief time on Earth.”

Tilford was also convicted of sexual abuse and intimidation of two former intimate partners.