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A Sri Lankan ruling party politician and three accomplices have been sentenced to 20 years in jail for murdering a British holidaymaker on Christmas Eve and raping his Russian partner in the southern resort of Tangalle in 2011.via: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/18/sri-lanka-politcian-guilty-murder-british-man