The man who confessed to killing film-maker Theo van Gogh in a murder that stunned the Netherlands will be sentenced today.

Prosecutors began presenting their case in the Netherlands today against the man accused of killing filmmaker Theo van Gogh, pushing for convictions on murder and terrorism charges.

THREE alleged members of a radical Dutch Islamic group were arrested and deported to the Netherlands from Portugal because police feared they were planning an attack on then-Prime Minister Jose Barroso, a former Portuguese police official said yesterday.