RICHMOND—A federal judge sentenced a Baltimore man to life plus 10 years in prison yesterday for the 2000 home-invasion slaying of a popular Westmoreland County banker.

Lajuan Davis, 23, had no words to say before U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson handed down the sentence on the 10 convictions: two for conspiracy, four for bank fraud and one each of wire fraud, carjacking, using a gun in a violent crime, transporting a stolen car across state lines and obstructing justice.

Davis and friend Deon Carter ambushed 46-year-old Francis M. Bailey Jr. at his farmhouse in Kinsale, killed him with a shotgun and drove his car to Baltimore on July 7, 2000, said U.S. Attorney S. David Schiller.

Police found the car the next day, on fire in an alley.

Bailey worked as a loan officer at the People’s Community Bank in Montross and hailed from one of Westmoreland’s oldest families. Members of Bailey’s family attended the sentencing in Richmond yesterday.

His brother, Robert Bailey, told the judge that the family and community are still pained six years after the murder.

“People like Carter and Davis are like a cancer on a society,” he said. “Just like cancer, you never know when it’s going to take an innocent life.”

Elizabeth B. Headley, Bailey’s sister, asked the judge to give Davis the harshest punishment possible, then looked at Davis with tears in her eyes and said, “I hope you rot in hell.”

Davis was also ordered to pay more than $21,000 in restitution to Bailey’s family, two banks and an insurance company.

Davis and Carter robbed, shot and killed a Baltimore cab driver named Sean Powell a week before Bailey was killed.

While they were hiding from Baltimore police, Carter asked his mother, Vernell Lee, to drive him and Davis to Virginia. Carter’s grandfather owned an unoccupied house about 300 yards away from Bailey.

Lee and her boyfriend, James McCray, dropped Carter and Davis at the house near Kinsale the night of July 6. The next day, Carter and Davis became bored because “there was no TV, no VCR, and nothing to do,” according to the federal indictment against Davis.