The 15-year-old shooter of Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe, who was attacked in June and died in August, has been sentenced to seven years in juvenile detention.

The right-wing politician was shot in the head during a campaign event in Bogota by the teenager, who “must remain in a specialised care centre for seven years, deprived of liberty”, prosecutors said in a statement on Wednesday.

The teen was charged with attempted murder and illegal possession of weapons – not homicide – because Colombian law does not permit modifying charges after they have been accepted by a minor defendant.

Uribe, a 39-year-old opposition legislator, underwent multiple surgeries during two months in an intensive care unit in Bogota, and died of a cerebral haemorrhage on August 11.

The attack

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