Pope gunman must stay in prison until 2010

Turkish prosecutors today ruled that the man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981 must stay in prison until the beginning of 2010, the Anatolia news agency reported.

Pope gunman must stay in prison until 2010

Turkish prosecutors today ruled that the man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981 must stay in prison until the beginning of 2010, the Anatolia news agency reported.

Mehmet Ali Agca was returned on Friday to the high-security Kartal Prison, the same prison he was released from eight days ago, after a court ruled he had more time to serve on his sentence for killing a prominent Turkish journalist in 1979 and other crimes.

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