Prosecutor reveals that bottle war criminal drank from in UN court had deadly substance

Preliminary tests show that a container from which a former Bosnian Croat military commander drank in a United Nations court contained a deadly chemical, a Dutch prosecutor has said.

Slobodan Praljak stunned the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia yesterday when he gulped down liquid from a small bottle seconds after a UN appeals judge had confirmed a 20-year sentence against him.