A jury on Thursday found a Forest Hills man guilty of strangling his wife earlier this year.

Jude Agbley, 35, was convicted of third-degree murder in a trial before Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Kathleen A. Durkin. Sentencing is set for Feb. 16.

The body of Brenda Agbley, 40, was found by her 7-year-old son on the couch of their Ogden Avenue home on Jan. 23. She had been strangled. Her husband, a Ghanian national, fled and was arrested by immigration agents a week later in Detroit.

Detectives found 14 threatening text messages on Mrs. Agbley's cell phone, sent from a number listed in her directory as "Jude."

At the time of his arrest, police were already seeking Mr. Agbley for failing to appear in court on burglary charges from 2003.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued a deportation order for him in 2004.

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