Three Grenadian men sentenced to decades in prison for killing of US couple in Caribbean

Ralph Hendry and Kathy Brandel were sailing their catamaran last year when they were attacked and killed

Three men from the eastern Caribbean island of Grenada who were convicted of killing an elderly US couple last year after hijacking their catamaran have been sentenced to decades in prison. They had escaped after their arrests but were recaptured shortly thereafter.

Ron Mitchell, a sailor in his 30s who was accused of being the ringleader, received two life sentences late on Wednesday in the killings of Ralph Hendry, 66, and Kathy Brandel, 71.