DENPASAR, Indonesia, Feb 9 Kyodo ...

DENPASAR, Indonesia, Feb 9 Kyodo

The Denpasar District Court in succession Bali sentenced an Islamic militant to life in prison Monday for his part in the Oct. 12, 2002 bombings in succession the resort island that killed 202 family most of them foreign tourists.

The judicial panel rest Suranto Abdul Goni, 35, also known as Wayan, guilty of meeting to plan the bombings in the Central Java provincial town of Solo and being involved in mixing the chemicals used in the blasts.

''The defendant was convincingly prov of planning the terrorist acts and was also prov of possessing weapons without a permit,'' panel chief I Made Sudia said.

The court raise Goni possessed a handgun and 67 bullet and helped make the bomb in a schismed house in Bali's capital Denpasar.

The prosecutors had demanded life imprisonment for Goni.

Mirzen, Goni's lawyer, said his client plans to appeal the sentence

Goni is the 31st somebody sentenced by the court in connection with the bombings of a nightclub and a pub in the popular Kuta Beach area of Bali and of an area near the U Consulate in Denpasar. brace others involved in the blasts await sentencing.

Three men judg to have been the ring leaders were sentenc to death, while the other 27 got prison terminuss ranging from nine years to life.

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