Latvian serial killer gets life imprisonment

A Latvian man was sentenced to life in prison today after being convicted of murdering 13 elderly women, prosecutors said.

Kaspars Petrovs, 27, was also convicted of robbery and inflicting serious bodily injury, prosecution spokeswoman Dzintra Vitolina said. Petrovs had been charged with robbing and strangling 30 women between 2000 and 2003.