Belgium:
A jealous schoolteacher who doctored the parachute of a love rival, causing her to plunge to her death, was sentenced to 30 years in prison in Belgium on Thursday.
In sentencing Els Clottemans, the judge said the only mitigating circumstance in the 2006 skydive murder was her feeble psychological condition.
The 26-year-old attempted suicide in 2008.
Clottemans was sentenced a day after she was found guilty of murdering Els van Doren by sabotaging her parachute so that neither it nor a safety chute would open during a jump on 18 November, 2006.
Van Doren crashed into a garden in the east Belgian town of Opglabbeek and died instantly.
The jury at the trial in the east Belgian town of Tongeren agreed with the prosecution that jealousy had motivated Clottemans.
She and Van Doren were members of the same parachute club.
The killer and her victim were intimately involved with the same a man, a Dutch skydiver.
The jury said Clottemans acted with premeditation and that, as an accomplished jumper, she knew very well how to disable a parachute.
Evidence at the trial showed she sent anonymous letters about Van Doren's love life to mutual friends and that she was psychologically unstable.
Clottemans - who maintained her innocence throughout the trial - had faced a maximum penalty of life in prison.