Carlos the Jackal begins life imprisonment

The Venezuelan known as Carlos the Jackal -- once the world's most wanted man -- is beginning a life sentence in France.

The self-proclaimed revolutionary, who was blamed for more than eighty killings in the l970s and early eighties, was convicted early today of murdering two French secret service agents and a Lebanese informer in 1975.

His lawyer is reported to be planning an appeal against the sentence.

This trial is unlikely to be the end of the case against Carlos ; he is already under investigation for six bomb attacks on trains and stations in France, mainly in the early l980s .

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service