A guilty verdict has been returned for the man accused of strangling Wexford student Nicola Furlong, with the Tokyo court sentencing American Richard Hinds to a maximum prison term of 10 years with labour.

An American forensics expert told a Tokyo court yesterday that she found “no major mistakes” in the autopsy report of Irishwoman Nicola Furlong. She agreed that the exchange student had been strangled in a Tokyo hotel last May but disputed certain statements made by the author of the report.