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A man who admitted to driving the teenage assassin responsible for the killing of Colombian presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe has been sentenced to 21 years in prison, the prosecutor’s office announced on Tuesday.
Uribe, aged 39, died in a hospital weeks after being shot twice in the head during a campaign event in Bogotá on 7 June. The 15-year-old shooter has already been sentenced to seven years in juvenile detention.
Prosecutors said Carlos Eduardo Mora González, one of five adults charged with aggravated homicide, confessed to transporting the underage gunman and other accomplices to the scene. Mora González also used his vehicle to survey the location ahead of the attack.
He reportedly accepted the role after being offered five million pesos (about $1,280). Authorities have yet to identify the mastermind behind the assassination, though police suspect involvement by a leftist guerrilla group.
Uribe’s murder evoked memories of Colombia’s bloody political past, when several presidential candidates were assassinated during the 1980s and 1990s.
