A man who was convicted this summer of murder and forcible sodomy, among other charges, stemming from a series of assaults of women in 2021 and 2023, was sentenced to 58 years in prison Friday as the family of one of his victims looked on.

Thomas O’Bryen, 44, sat flanked by two sheriff’s deputies clad in helmets and facemasks as he listened to testimony in Norfolk Circuit Court from one of the survivors of his assaults and Monte Joyner, the eldest son of Angela Renee Joyner, who died after jumping from O’Bryen’s car as he repeatedly stabbed her.

The survivor, who now works as a custodian in Hampton, said she lives with severe trust issues since the assault and doesn’t go out much, and said she continues to experience memory loss and neuropathy issues in her hands as well as periodic pain

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