’You are a coward’ crying ’crocodile tears,’ judge blasts man at sentencing in girlfriend’s death

Jeffrey McDonald wept as he apologized to his girlfriend Alyssa Johnson’s family Monday in a St. George courtroom moments before being sentenced to up to 12 years behind bars for beating Johnson to death last year in their Dongan Hills Justice Mario F. Mattei wasn’t impressed by the defendant’s expression of sorrow, and instead, lit into him. (Video: Bill Lyons)