A Wayland man who was convicted in 2013 of strangling and stabbing his former high school sweetheart just weeks after graduation has been ordered by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to be resentenced from life without parole to life with the possibility of parole after 15 years.
Nathaniel Fujita, a former high school football player, was accused of killing his ex-girlfriend, Lauren Astley, in 2011. The two were both 18 at the time of the murder. Astley’s body was found in a marsh, where she was strangled to death with a bungee cord and her throat slashed.
Prosecutors said that the motive behind the murder was rage following their break-up.
Two years later, Fujita was convicted at 20 years old. He was sentenced to life…