A 40-year-old car washer was sentenced to life imprisonment by a special women’s court yesterday for the murder of a 67-year-old woman in her posh Versova flat nearly three years ago.

Judge SKS Razvi convicted Dharmendra Satyaprakash Singh, who washed vehicles of occupants of Beach Classic building, Versova, for strangling Vimla Jaiswal (67), a widow who lived alone in her flat on April 24, 2014. Two other accused of the crime - a domestic help, Sherbahadur Saud (35), and a security guard, Santosh Sharma (43) - were, however, acquitted.