Kenyan sentenced to death for murder, kidnap of Britons


  • World
  • Tuesday, 30 Jul 2013

MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - A Kenyan judge has sentenced a man to death for the murder of British tourist David Tebbutt and handed him a separate jail term for abducting the victim's wife from a remote beach resort near the Somali border.

The murder and kidnap in 2011 shook Kenya's tourism industry. The wife, Judith Tebbutt, was taken away by boat and held by Somali pirates for six months. Soon afterwards, Kenya's military launched an offensive against al Shabaab militants then controlling much of Somalia.

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