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Three former Khmer Rouge guerillas have been sentenced to 20 years in jail by a Cambodian court for the kidnapping and murder of a British mine clearer and his translator 12 years ago. A fourth man was jailed for 10 years for his part in the crimes and a fifth was cleared, Judge Iv Kim Sri said as he read the verdict to a Phnom Penh court. Christopher Howes and his translator Houn Hourth, who worked for the British charity the Mines Advisory Group (MAG) were kidnapped as they cleared mines near to the Cambodian temple complex Angkor Wat in March 1996. For two years, as Pol Pot's regime spiralled into collapse, the fate of the former British army engineer from Backwell in North Somerset remained a mystery. The remains for the victims were found in 1998, after the fall of the Khmer Rouge, and a Scotland Yard investigation found... [read full story]
