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Beiru: A Lebanese court has sentenced an Uber driver to death for the murder of British embassy worker Rebecca Dykes in December 2017, state news agency NNA said.
Rebecca Dykes, a British staffer at the British embassy in Lebanon, was found strangled by the side of the road east of Beirut. Credit:AP
The driver, Tariq Houshieh, confessed to raping and strangling 30-year-old Dykes, who worked at the embassy in Lebanon for Britain's Department for International Development.
The British embassy said it hoped the court's decision would "provide a degree of closure" for those close to Dykes. "Becky was much loved and is deeply missed," it said in a statement.
Lebanese judges routinely call for death sentences in cases of murder. But the country has an unofficial moratorium and has not carried out an execution since 2004, according to the monitoring group Human Rights Watch.