Man gets life for murder of Swedish politician

MIJAILO MIJAILOVIC was jailed for life yesterday for the murder of Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh.

The sentence came more than six months after Ms Lindh, one of the Scandinavian country's most popular politicians, was attacked while shopping unguarded in a Stockholm department store.

Ms Lindh, 46, was widely tipped as a future prime minister. Her death plunged the country into a state of shock and raised the spectre of the unsolved death of Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986.