Four terrorist followers of Osama bin Laden convicted in the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in Africa have been sentenced to life without parole.

Four members of Osama bin Laden’s al Qaida organisation were being sentenced today just a few hundred yards from the World Trade Centre for their part in terrorist attacks in 1998.

A follower of Osama bin Laden received life in prison without parole for the deadly bombing of the US Embassy in Kenya after a New York jury was deadlocked amid concerns that imposing a death penalty would create a martyr.