 Sentencing her to 18 months in prison, Judge Mary Marlowe-Summer said it was her actions and lack of proper checks that led to Helena Hutchins' death. You were the armorer, the one that stood between a safe weapon and a weapon that could kill someone. You alone turned a safe weapon into a lethal weapon. But for you, Ms. Hutchins would be alive, a husband would have his partner, and a little boy would have his mother.