Brit terrorist convicted of killing a Wall Street Journal reporter has death sentence overturned
A BRIT terrorist convicted of killing a Wall Street Journal reporter has had his death sentence overturned in Pakistan.
British national Omar Saeed Sheikh had been sentenced to death in 2002 for the murder and abduction of Daniel Pearl.Daniel Pearl had been working for the Wall Street Journal in PakistanHowever, the Sindh High Court has now replaced that with seven years imprisonment. A defence attorney told Reuters a Pakistani court had commuted the death sentence and acquitted three others who were accused in the case.
Journalist Pearl, 38, had been the Wall Street Journal's South Asia Bureau Chief, based in Mumbai, India almost two decades ago. He had been investigating the alleged links between British citizen Richard Reid and Al-Qaeda when he was kidnapped.Nurse ‘strangled doc girlfriend, 27, to death thinking she gave him virus'LIVES DESTROYEDExpert catching bats fuels conspiracy virus was caused by Chinese scientistsCHECK IT OUTThe journalist was forced to pose with a newspaper
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