Pinochet 'unfit to stand trial' court rules

The Supreme Court in Chile last night ruled that former dictator Augusto Pinochet was mentally and physically unfit to stand trial accused of being responsible for the kidnapping and murder of dozens of political prisoners.

In a four-to-one ruling, the court rejected the arguments of prosecutors, reaffirming a lower court’s stay of proceedings for Pinochet, who suffers from vascular dementia, a progressive disease caused by broken blood vessels.