The man convicted of killing 49- year-old Bonni Gilbert in July 2009 was sentenced to life in prison last week.
On Friday, Britt Alan Cox, 42, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole and an additional 60 years in prison, according to the Jefferson County district attorney’s office.
On the morning of July 28, 2009, Cox broke into Gilbert’s Lakewood home and shot her in the head, prosecutors said. Later that evening, Cox returned to the house and poured gasoline throughout the house and lit it, causing an explosion and fire.
Gilbert and Cox were friends who often used methamphetamine together, prosecutors said.
Cox said Gilbert owed him money for drugs and work he had done for her. After police found a stolen motorcycle Cox was hiding on Gilbert’s property, he told friends that she was a snitch.
At Cox’s sentencing hearing, Gilbert’s ex-husband recalled how she was a good mother to their two sons, before she started using drugs.
After a three-week trial in May, Cox was convicted of felony murder, aggravated robbery, first-degree robbery, first-degree arson, second-degree arson, two counts of aggravated motor vehicle theft, tampering with physical evidence and two counts of burglary.
The Denver Post
This story has been corrected in this online archive. Originally, due to a source error, Britt Alan Cox’s sentence was reported erroneously.
