By Laura Italiano
NEW YORK — Ex-con Hassan Malik was sentenced to 20 years in prison yesterday for admittedly murdering a woman, stuffing her body into a suitcase, and then rolling the luggage out to a Harlem street and abandoning it in 2010.
“I apologize to the family of Betty Williams, for what happened,” Malik, 57, sobbed as he was sentenced by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Charles Solomon.
“That’s not me, and it hurts,” he cried.
Malik had admittedly bludgeoned Williams, 28, with a frying pan and strangled her with a cord in his Pleasant Avenue apartment, telling cops later that he’d fought with her after he caught her stealing his money.
He then stuffed the woman, fully clothed, into a suitcase, rolled her to East 114th Street, and left her there.
A neighborhood resident opened the abandoned suitcase to peek inside, and Williams’ leg popped out, cops said.
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