The ringleader and seven members of a gang that tied up and robbed the billionaire reality TV star Kim Kardashian have been found guilty by a Paris court.
Aomar Ait Khedache, 69, unable to speak or hear due to illness, read the presiding judge's verdict from a screen, as he had followed the whole trial. Eight out of nine of the defendants in the case were found guilty of crimes linked to the robbery.
A jury at the Paris Assizes handed down their verdicts on Friday evening after 11 hours of deliberation, before one was told he would spend just three years in a cell.
Most of the sentences were suspended, meaning the others will spend a maximum of two years in prison. Two of the defendants – both considered informants who allegedly passed on Ms Kardashian's movement to the gang during Paris Fashion Week – were acquitted.
Ms Kardashian, 44, who was not in court today, lost $10million-worth of jewellery in the October 2016 raid, including a $4million engagement ring from her ex-husband, the rapper Kanye West, that has never been recovered.
