Carlos the Jackal convicted for 1980s French attacks

Self-styled revolutionary "Carlos the Jackal" has been convicted in France of organising four deadly attacks in the 1980s and sentenced to life in prison.

Carlos, a Venezuelan whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, is already serving life in a Paris prison for a triple murder in 1975.

He has denied any role in the bomb attacks in France in 1982 and 1983 that killed 11 people.

The 62-year-old was captured by French special forces in Sudan in 1994.

By that time he had earned global notoriety as a mastermind of deadly bomb attacks, assassinations and hostage-takings.

It was the discovery of fresh evidence that led to him being tried for the bomb attacks in Paris and Marseilles that also left more than 140 people injured.      More