The World - News from April 13, 1988
A West German court ruled that a Lebanese suspect in the 1985 hijacking of a TWA jetliner and slaying of a U.S. sailor will receive at the most a 15-year prison sentence, if convicted, because he was under age 21 at the time. A state court in Frankfurt said that Mohammed Ali Hamadi, now 22, will be tried by a juvenile court. He is accused of being an accomplice in the 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847, seized by air pirates on a flight from Athens to Rome, and the killing of one of its passengers, U.S. Navy diver Robert Stethem, later in Beirut. Under West German law, a juvenile court may impose prison sentences ranging from six months to a maximum of 15 years.
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