25 July,2016 08:22 AM IST | | Agencies
Two men involved in one of Mexico's most shocking kidnapping and killing incidents have each been sentenced to 520 years in prison
Mexico City: Two men involved in one of Mexico's most shocking kidnapping and killing incidents have each been sentenced to 520 years in prison.
Mario Alberto Rodriguez Ledezma and Gabriel Carrasco Ilizaliturri must additionally pay a fine of more than $270,000 for their role in kidnapping 13 people, including an 18-year-old, at a bar in Mexico City in May 2013.
The men are ineligible for parole and if unable to pay the fine, must serve 39,000 days of community service. The crime, carried out by armed men at a bar known as Heaven, shocked the nation as a dozen of youths were killed.
A total of 22 people have been charged in connection with the crime, among which eight have been sentenced. Last September, the owner of the bar, Ernesto Espinosa Lobo and two other people received sentences of more than 500 years in prison. Two other perpetrators were jailed for 520 years in December.
