Polygamist sect leader in coma

Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was taken to hospital in Texas in a medically-induced coma after fasting in the weeks since receiving a life sentence for sexually assaulting underage followers he took as spiritual brides.

The 55-year-old head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was critical but expected to survive, an official familiar with Jeffs’ medical condition said.