A Dutch court sentenced the confessed killer of Dutch film-maker Theo Van Gogh to life imprisonment today.

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

THE Muslim extremist on trial for murdering filmmaker Theo van Gogh admitted his guilt in court yesterday, declaring he acted out of religious conviction and would do it again if given the chance.

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.

THE man accused of killing Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh defied the judges at the opening of his trial yesterday, strolling into court with a Koran under his arm and refusing to mount a defence before civilian authorities.

Dutch authorities have ordered the release of a 22-year-old Chechen man arrested two months ago in connection with the killing of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh.

TWO Chechen citizens have been arrested in France and the Netherlands in connection with the murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, Amsterdam prosecutors said yesterday.

The accused killer of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh ignored his victim’s pleas for mercy and calmly shot him at close range before slitting his throat, prosecutors said today at the first public hearing in the murder case.

Six men arrested following the killing of filmmaker Theo van Gogh are no longer suspects in the murder, but still face charges of belonging to a terrorist group, authorities said today.

Dutch police were laying siege to a house in The Hague today where an unknown number of terrorism suspects were holed up.

Three Dutch policemen were injured by a hand grenade during a terrorism-related raid on a house in The Hague today.

Dutch Muslims and Christians called for an end to a cycle of retaliatory vandalism of mosques and churches as slain filmmaker Theo van Gogh was cremated, a week after his killing by a suspected Islamic radical.

A BOMB blast blew the front door off a Muslim elementary school in the Netherlands yesterday and extensively damaged the building in what police suspect was a revenge attack for the killing of a Dutch filmmaker last week.

A suspected bomb blew the front door off a Muslim elementary school in a southern Dutch town and shattered windows across the street, days after a suspected Muslim radical killed a Dutch filmmaker, police said today. There were no reports of injuries.