‘Something feels different’: MH17 guilty verdicts deliver ‘some justice’ for families of victims
It's what we came to hear, the missile downing mum and dad's plane is true,' son says
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For Matthew Horder, in an Amsterdam court to hear three men finally convicted of responsibility for the shooting down of commercial airline flight MH17, there is, finally, a sense of justice, tempered by the knowledge the men responsible for murdering his parents are not likely to see the inside of a prison cell.
Three men convicted over the fatal shooting down of MH17 on 17 July 2014 - Igor Girkin, Sergey Dubinsky, and Leonid Kharchenko - have been sentenced to life imprisonment. A Dutch court held them responsible for the Buk missile launch that downed the passenger jet, killing all 298 people on board.
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