(MENAFN) Two Turkish men have been sentenced to life in jail over the murder last year of a Syrian woman and her 10-month-old baby in a double killing that traumatized the country, media said on Tuesday.
The Syrian refugee victim was raped and bludgeoned to death by the rock-wielding attackers in the northwestern Sakarya province just days before she was due to give birth. Her baby was strangled to death.
The two suspects were found guilty of "planned murder", "killing a pregnant woman", "sexual assault" and "killing a baby deprived of defending himself," the state-run Anadolu news agency reported.
The woman's husband was quoted as saying he was not satisfied with Monday's court ruling.
"Those who brutally killed my wife and my baby have no right to life," he cried outside the court, Turkish daily Hurriyet reported.
Last year, Turkish authorities detained the two men who confessed to what officials branded a barbaric attack in a country that is home to over three million refugees from the civil war in Syria.
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