Mar 14, 2018

A Turkish court has sentenced a man to life in prison for murdering a Syrian opposition activist and her journalist daughter in a crime that shocked the exile community, state media said Wednesday.

Aroubeh Barakat and her 22-year-old daughter Halla Barakat were found dead in their Istanbul apartment in September last year.

Syrian national Ahmet Barakat, believed to be a relative of the victims, was arrested after a police raid and charged with murder.

The court in Istanbul convicted him late Tuesday with premeditated murder, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported.

The judge said in the hearing that DNA evidence collected by forensic reports had incriminated the suspect who denied the charges.