Van Gogh killer presents religious defence in new trial

The convicted killer of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, in a three-hour address to a Dutch court, today said he felt “honoured” to be associated with al-Qaida, and offered no defence to charges he was part of terrorist group that planned attacks on Dutch politicians.

Mohammed Bouyeri, 27, is already serving a life sentence for Van Gogh’s 2004 murder, which Bouyeri said he carried out alone because he believed Van Gogh insulted Islam in his film criticising the treatment of Muslim women.