Top cop now faces life in jail

A senior police official sentenced to death for murdering his bodyguard has had his punishment commuted to life in prison by Indonesia’s Supreme Court, an official said.

Ferdy Sambo, a two-star general and former head of internal affairs for the national police, was named as a suspect after his bodyguard was found dead at Sambo’s home in July last year, in a killing police were initially accused of covering up.