Ruling next month in murders of gorilla reserve Britons

A judge today said he would rule on January 9 in the trial of a Rwandan rebel accused of killing four British tourists and their guide in a famed Ugandan gorilla reserve.

Steven Roberts, 27, from Edinburgh; Mark Lindgren, 23, from St Albans; Hertfordshire; Martin Friend, 24, from Orpington, Kent; and Joanne Cotton, 28, from Essex, were among the victims hacked to death with axes and machetes. Two Americans and two New Zealanders also died.