[ADN Kronos] An Iraqi man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of an Irish aid worker shot dead in 2004. Margaret Hassan, who had lived in Iraq for 30 years, was seized by a group of armed men wearing Iraqi police uniforms in October 2004 and killed a month later.
Fifty-nine year-old Hassan was the director of Care International in Iraq and was kidnapped on her way to work in Baghdad.
The body of Dublin-born Hassan, who had Irish, British and Iraqi citizenship, was never found.
| Triple citizenship? Isn't that a bit...exuberant? |
| Didn't save him, either ... |
"Ali Lutfi Jassar is sentenced to life for participating in the killing and kidnapping of Margaret Hassan, and of attempting to blackmail her family," said Assaad al-Moussawi, a judge at Baghdad's central criminal court, cited by Arab TV network Al-Jazeera on Tuesday. "His role in the killing was proved."
Jassar, a 25-year-old engineer, had pleaded not guilty at the start of the one-day trial. He said that his confession had been extracted through torture. |