A member of the gang that kidnapped and murdered Irish-born aid worker Margaret Hassan has been jailed for life.
Mrs Hassan, 59, the director of aid agency Care International in Iraq, was kidnapped on her way to work in Baghdad in October 2004 and shot dead just under a month later.
Ali Lutfi Jassar al-Rawi pleaded not guilty to charges of kidnapping and murder but was given a life sentence at Baghdad's Central Criminal Court today.
He was alleged to have contacted the British Embassy in Baghdad demanding money to reveal what happened to Mrs Hassan's body after she was killed.
Mr al-Rawi, also known as Abu Rasha, was seized by US special forces and Iraqi forces in August last year after they were informed about his attempts to extort money from the British embassy.
Mrs Hassan's family had hoped he would try to avoid the death penalty by revealing the location of her grave.
Her sister Deirdre said they hoped her killer would agree to reveal where the aid worker is buried.
Mrs Hassan was born Margaret Fitzsimons in Dublin, but her family moved to Britain when she was a child.
She held triple Irish, British and Iraqi nationality. She had lived in Baghdad for 30 years and was married to an Iraqi.
Her siblings, Geraldine, Deirdre, Kathryn and Michael, have fought tirelessly to retrieve their sister's body.
The first member of the kidnap gang to be convicted, Mustafa Salman al-Jubouri, was given a life sentence in June 2006 but it was reduced to 18 months on appeal.
