Court cuts sentence for Turkish man who stabbed Leeds fans

A Turkish man found guilty of stabbing two English football fans to death in April 2000 received a reduced sentence of six years and eight months in his retrial today, the state-run Anatolia news agency reported.

A second suspect, Suleyman Gokhan Guven, who had received a three-month sentence in the first trial, was given a 10-year sentence in the retrial for stabbing Christopher Loftus and Kevin Speight, Anatolia said.