A 19 year old American musician, Richard Hinds has been found guilty of the murder of the County Wexford student, Nicola Furlong by a court in Tokyo. Hinds was sentenced to 5 to10 years in prison with labour. The Presiding judge described the crime as "atrocious," and said that the fact that Ms Furlong was "strangled with force for several minutes:" showed "intent" Joining Pat from Tokyo Paul Murphy of the Irish Independent and Angela Furlong, Nicola’s mother.