Spain's High Court jails man who threatened to kill PM Sanchez for seven years

FILE PHOTO: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez looks on during a press statement with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, March 18, 2022. Filip Singer/Pool via REUTERS

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's High Court has sentenced a 65-year-old security guard to a seven-and-half-year prison term for discussing assassinating Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on a far-right WhatsApp chat in 2018 and possessing illegal guns.

Manuel Murillo Sanchez was sentenced to two-and-a-half years for attempted murder and five years for possession of war weapons, a court document released on Tuesday said. He was also prohibited from owning firearms for the next eight years.