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Trent Humphreys-McPherson appeared on Monday in Muskegon County Circuit Court, where he was handed the mandatory punishment of life in prison without the possibility of parole.

The convicted killer did not make a statement before being learning his fate on the advice of his lawyer, because the 26-year-old man faces other criminal charges in connection to the case, including lying to police about his grandfather's slaying.

Locked up: Trent Humphreys-McPherson, 26 (left) appeared on Monday in Muskegon County Circuit Court, where he was sentenced to life in prison for hacking to death his grandfather, Dennis McPherson, 71 (right)

In late October, a jury found Humphreys-McPherson guilty of first-degree murder in the January murder of his grandfather, Dennis McPherson.

On the morning of January 9, police were called to Mr McPherson's home in the 100 block of South Dangl Road in Muskegon Township after getting a report about a possible home invasion.

Inside, the responding officers found the elderly man hacked to death. An autopsy later determined that McPherson suffered 30 wounds to his head and neck, as well as broken ribs and defensive wounds to his hands, reported The Muskegon Chronicle.

Investigators quickly zeroed in on the grandson as the prime suspect and arrested him a day later after discovering a bloody hatchet used as the murder weapon in his apartment, as well as blood in his car.

Prosecutors have theorized that Humphreys-McPherson went to his grandfather's house to get money to pay for crack-cocaine.

He broke glass on a door to enter the house and then murdered Ms McPherson with a hatchet in a fit of rage, according to the prosecution.

During the grandson's trial, his former fiancee and co-defendant Kerri Sue Crawford testified that Humphrys-McPherson also stole a big-screen TV from his grandfather's home.

Other witnesses told the court that Humphrys-McPherson had been holding a grudge against his grandfather for years, wrongly believing that Mr McPherson had cheated him out of a substantial life-insurance 'settlement' in the wake of his father's death in a snowmobile accident in 2006.

On Monday, Judge Timothy G. Hicks said he was disturbed 'that Mr. McPherson's last memories of this life were his grandson, who apparently loves him, killing him with a hatchet.'