A US soldier has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for murdering four Iraqi detainees in 2007.Sgt Joseph Mayo, 27, was earlier convicted by a court martial of premeditated murder and conspiracy to commit premeditated murder.The detainees were shot and dumped in a Baghdad canal in retribution for an attack on an US patrol in the Iraqi capital in which two soldiers died.Mayo will be eligible for parole in 10 years, the court ruled.He had pleaded guilty to the charges during the hearing at the US Army's Rose Barracks in southern Germany.
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