A man was beginning a life sentence in the United States today after he admitted kidnapping and murdering a 67-year-old Irish nun.

POLICE in the US were last night hunting a crazed killer who decapitated a Cork City-born nun after shooting his father 16 times with two different rifles.

Police in the US believed tonight they had found the dismembered body of an Irish nun who had been abducted by a 25-year-old man shortly after he had murdered his father.

US police are tonight hunting a man who abducted two nuns, one of them Irish, after killing his father in Georgia.