An Iraqi man was sentenced on Monday to life imprisonment for connection with the abduction and killing of Iraqi-British aid worker Margaret Hassan in 2004, a court official said.

Mustafa Salman al-Jubouri was convicted of aiding and abetting the kidnappers, the official said.

He also said that two other defendants in the case were freed.

Hassan, 59, an Iraqi-British national who had lived in Iraq for more than three decades after marrying an Iraqi engineer, was head of the Iraqi operation of the charity Care International.

She was abducted while travelling to work in Baghdad in October 2004 and was killed about a month later after appealing in video messages made by her abductors for British forces to withdraw from Iraq.

No militant group has claimed responsibility for her abduction or killing. Her body has not been found.

In May 2005, the U.S. forces captured several men for possession of Hassan's belongings, including her handbag and make- up, in a raid southeast of Baghdad.

Source: Xinhua