Two Norwegian ex-soldiers have been sentenced to death for a second time in Democratic Republic of the Congo by a military tribunal.
Joshua French, 28, who has dual citizenship with Britain and briefly served in the British army, and Tjostolv Moland, 29, were originally found guilty of murder and espionage by a Congolese court last year.
The men, who had been working as private military contractors in other countries and were operating in Congo under murky circumstances, denied shooting dead their driver Abedi Kasongo in May 2009. They claimed bandits killed him.
During the first trial the court also fined Norway $60m (£41m), alleging that the Norwegian men were spies.
The death sentences were upheld on appeal, but in April a military court in the capital Kinshasa overturned the convictions for technical reasons and ordered a retrial with fresh judges.
That took place in the north-eastern city of Kisangani, near where Kasongo was killed. Colonel Pierre Agabu, the prosecutor, said today that French and Moland had again been sentenced to death for murder, attempted murder, criminal association and spying.
By: Brant
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