Life for Karadzic after lost appeal

FORMER Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has been sentenced to life in prison after losing an appeal.

Judges in The Hague said the original 40-year sentence was too light, and implemented a life term. Karadzic, 73, was convicted in 2016 of the massacre of 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995 – the worst European atrocity since the Second World War. Survivors erupted into applause after Judge Vagn Joensen read the sentence, against which there can be no appeal.

Judge Joensen said the sentence was fitting given Karadzic’s ‘participation in the gravest of crimes’. He was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Karadzic was arrested in July 2008 after spending a decade in hiding.