US nursing student Laken Riley's killer guilty of murder

An undocumented immigrant has been found guilty of murdering nursing student Laken Riley in a case that became a flashpoint in the 2024 presidential election.

Jose Antonio Ibarra, a Venezuelan, killed the 22-year-old on 22 February this year after going “hunting for females” on the University of Georgia (UGA) campus, the week-long trial heard.

Ibarra’s lawyers had argued that evidence linking him to Ms Riley’s death was “circumstantial”.