Colombia sentences soldier for murders of civilians

A Colombian court has sentenced a soldier to 54 years in prison for killing three people and passing them off as rebels killed in combat. 

The judge said Cpl Luis Alejandro Toledo posed the dead as Farc rebels to inflate his success rate in battle.

Prosecutors are investigating thousands of soldiers for similar alleged crimes, dubbed false positives.

A colonel from the same unit had already been sentenced to a long jail term in connection with the murders.

Cpl Toledo was found guilty of murder, forced disappearance, and conspiracy to commit a crime.    Read Here