The final court session of the 11-week trial took place on Thursday in Sale, near the north African country’s capital Rabat. "We expect sentences that match the cruelty of the crime," lawyer Khaled El Fataoui, speaking for the family of Danish victim Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, told AFP prior to the verdicts being reached. Helle Petersen, her mother, in a letter read out in court last week, said: "The most just thing would be to give these beasts the death penalty they deserve." Prosecutors called for the death penalty for the three main suspects behind the killings in the High Atlas mountains last December. READ ALSO: Mother of murdered Danish student urges death sentences in Morocco trial

Source: The Local July 18, 2019 15:11 UTC