Further confusing matters, a Pakistani named Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh had already been convicted of the abduction and murder, in 2002.
A former abattoir worker and lifeguard has been convicted of the abduction and murder of five-year-old April Jones.
See articleJustice firstIn the ten-year-old International Criminal Court 's first verdict, Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, a Congolese warlord, was convicted of the abduction and use of children as soldiers a war crime in the Democratic Republic of Congo during 2002 and 2003.
But seldom has it happened so dramatically as in the three days since Levi Bellfield was convicted of the abduction and murder of Milly Dowler, the 13-year-old girl who disappeared as she walked home from school in Walton-on-Thames in 2002.
Hundreds of people gathered outside France's Justice Ministry Monday evening to hail the decision by French authorities to re-try 14 of the 27 people convicted of the abduction and brutal 2006 murder of cell phone salesman Ilan Halimi.
Bridger, a former slaughterhouse worker, was given a whole life sentence after he was convicted of April Jones' abduction and murder, and of perverting the course of justice by unlawfully disposing, destroying or concealing her body.
Mr. Broom was convicted of the 1984 abduction, rape and killing of Tryna Middleton, 14, who had been walking home from a football game in Cleveland with two friends.
But last month another judge, Mr Justice Wilkie, made a whole-life order in the case of Jamie Reynolds, 22, convicted of a sexually-motivated abduction and murder.
The jury took a little over four hours to convict him of abduction, murder and disposing of, concealing or destroying April's body.
Maryland residents cannot own a firearm if they've been convicted of a crime of violence, which includes abduction, murder, robbery, and sexual offenses.
