Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years for plotting military coup in Brazil

Former president sought to annihilate' country's democracy after losing 2022 election

• Explainer: what did Bolsonaro's trial reveal?

Brazil's former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro has been sentenced to more than 27 years in prison for plotting a military coup and seeking to annihilate" the South American country's democracy.

Justices Carmen Lucia Antunes Rocha and Cristiano Zanin ruled on Thursday that Bolsonaro - a former paratrooper who was elected president in 2018 - was guilty of seeking to forcibly cling to power after losing the 2022 election, meaning four of the five judges involved in the trial had found Brazil's former leader guilty.