Van Gogh killer jailed for life

A DUTCH court sentenced the killer of Dutch film-maker Theo Van Gogh to life in prison yesterday, the harshest sentence for a murder that stunned the country, heightened ethnic tensions and raised concerns about homegrown Islamic terrorism.

Mohammed Bouyeri, aged 27, mounted no defence at his two-day trial in Amsterdam earlier this month for the murder on November 2 of Van Gogh whom he accused of insulting Islam and told the court he would do it again.

Judge Udo Willem Bentinck said life was the only fitting punishment.