Pakistan court sends man acquitted of Daniel Pearl murder to 'safe house'

Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh will be held under guard after being moved off death row

Pakistan's supreme court has ordered that the Pakistani-British man acquitted of the 2002 beheading of the American journalist Daniel Pearl be moved off death row and to a government safe house".

Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who has been on death row for 18 years, will be under guard and not allowed to leave the safe house, but his wife and children will be able to visit him.