Appeals court upholds attempted murder sentence

An appeal lodged against a prison sentence imposed for two accounts of attempted murder has been dismissed by the court of appeals, which ratified the 16-year sentences as not being excessive, it was announced on Friday.

In its decision issued on July 9, by which it upheld the ruling of the court of first instance, the court of appeals said the criminal court had taken into account the seriousness of the offences, during which a man and a six-year-old boy had been injured, as well as the...