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Protesting Wolusky sentenced to life without parole

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A bearded Tristan Wolusky listens during statements by relatives of stabbing victim Aaron Wilkerson during Wednesday's sentencing at Strafford County Superior Court. (Union Leader/Kimberly Haas photo)

DOVER, N.H. - When convicted murderer Tristan Wolusky asked Superior Court Judge Steven Houran if he could speak directly to the family whose son he killed, the answer was no, not from Houran, but from assistant Attorney General Peter Hinckley, who said the family of slain teenage Aaron Wilkerson did not want to even look at his face.

Wolusky was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without the possibility for parole in the June 21, 2014, stabbing death of Wilkerson during an early morning robbery gone awry in the driveway of his Madbury home.

Wilkerson was stabbed and struck with a machete more than 20 times, according to a coroner's report.

His body was later dumped along Long Swamp Road in Lebanon where a woman walking her dog found it later that day.

The monthlong trial of Wolusky stunned the Seacoast with its sheer senseless brutality, and pitted accomplices Michael Tatum, 22, of Barrington, and Zachary Pinette, 20, of Springvale, Maine, against purported ringleader Wolusky as they turned state's evidence against their former cohort in pursuit of life sentences with the possibility of parole down the road.

Defense lawyer Mark Sisti labeled them nothing more than rats early on, saying they lied on the stand to save their own skin.

Wolusky, meanwhile, clung still on Wednesday to the claim that he never stabbed Wilkerson, never held him down during the attack and was wrongly convicted.

Wolusky, 19, said in a statement to the court, "I did not murder Aaron Wilkinson, nor did I hold him down when he was being murdered. The system has failed all of us."

Sisti has promised he will file an appeal.

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