Honduras - Robber gets 28 years in prison for murdering TV journalist

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Jonathan Cockborn Delgado, a man previously wanted for armed robbery, was sentenced yesterday to 28 years in prison for the murder of Televisión de Honduras producer and presenter Jorge Alberto “Georgino” Orellana, who was gunned down outside the TV station in the northern city of San Pedro Sula on 20 April 2010. Prosecutors said the murder was not related to Orellana's work as a journalist and that Cockburn shot him in the head at close range in order to take his mobile phone, which he was (...)

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