Long sentence for Center City attacker

Willie Wyche: "I just want to apologize to my victims."
Willie Wyche: "I just want to apologize to my victims."
Posted: April 16, 2012

Willie Wyche, the career criminal who stalked, choked and robbed six women in the Society Hill area last year - beginning just one month after he had finished serving a 20-year prison sentence - was given an even longer sentence Monday.

Saying that Wyche, 40, had preyed upon women who were primarily older and smaller than himself, Common Pleas Judge Dennis Cohen sentenced Wyche to 50 to 100 years in state prison.

"It is clear to the court that the crimes you committed are brutal, absolutely brutal," Cohen said. "It is also clear that you launched a terror attack against women."

Wyche previously pleaded guilty to multiple counts of aggravated assault, robbery and related crimes for the attacks that took place in June and July of last year.

He snuck up from behind and choked five of his six victims before robbing them, and broke into the home of the sixth victim.

Contact Mensah M. Dean at 215-568-8278 or deanm@phillynews.com

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