The High Court has sentenced the former leader of the ETA terror organisation, Juan Antonio Olarra Guridi (archive photo), to serve thirty years for ordering the assassination of Andalucía's chief prosecutor, Luis Portero, who was gunned down by Harriet Iragi and Jon Igor Solana in the doorway of his Granada home on the 9th October 2000.

Guiridi was also sentenced to pay his victim's widow and four children €900,000 euros in compensation.

One of the victim's sons, Daniel Portero, testified on the 21st December that his father had requested a police escort just a few weeks before his death because he knew that the terrorists had targeted him, but the request was turned down by the PP government led by José María Aznar.

Guridi, who has already been sentenced to serve more than 1,000 years for a variety of previous convictions, refused to participate in the trial.

The actual perpetrators, Iragi and Solana, were each sentenced to serve 54 years at their trial in October 2002.

In accordance with ETA tradition, both denied knowing Guridi when called to give evidence at their former leader's trial.