British couple's attacker hopes for parole

An Israeli paratrooper convicted of killing a British tourist and wounding his girlfriend has been approved for parole after serving two-thirds of his 20-year sentence.

Daniel Okev had picked up student hitchhikers Max Hunter, from Banstead, Surrey and Charlotte Gibb, from Deeping St James, Lincolnshire, in August 1997 near the Red Sea resort of Eilat.