Amie Harwick’s Ex-Boyfriend Found Guilty Of Killing Hollywood Therapist; Crime Carries Life Imprisonment Sentence
29.09.2023 - 00:31
/ deadline.com
BREAKING …The former boyfriend of Dr. Amie Harwick has been found guilty of killing the Hollywood therapist.
With the first-degree murder verdict from a jury moments ago, Gareth Pursehouse could be sentenced to life behind bars. Under California law, he will have no possibility of parole. Already in custody, Pursehouse is scheduled to be sentenced on December 6.
The jury reached their verdict Thursday against Pursehouse after just seven hours of deliberation in downtown LA over the past two days. The defense rested in the matter without ever presenting a case for their client
A well-known family and sex therapist and ex-fiancée of Drew Carey, Harwick was thrown from the third-floor balcony of her Hollywood Hills home in the early hours of February 15, 2020. Unresponsive but still alive when the LAPD arrived after being contacted by a roommate, Harwick died soon afterwards in a local hospital.
“On Saturday, February 15, 2020, around 1:16 a.m. Hollywood patrol officers responded to a radio call of a ‘woman screaming’ in the 2000 block of Mound Street in Hollywood Hills,” the LAPD reported in a February 16 statement.
While the autopsy report cited the main reason for Harwick’s death as blunt force injuries to the skull and body from a fall, “manual strangulation” was also noted by the LA County Medical Examiner-Coroner. Along with a burglary charge, Pursehouse was determined to behave been “lying in wait” for up to four hours to kill Harwick — with whom he was said to be obsessed for years
Author of 2014’s The Sex Bible for Women, Harwick had appeared in the 2015 documentary Addicted to Sexting, about the proliferation of the social phenomenon and its effects.
In 2012, after a relationship that lasted just over a year,