Former Solomons PM in jail
Updated
![Sir Allan Kemakeza has been jailed for six months for a 2002 attack on a Honiara law firm. [AFP]](http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/img/news/base/sols_kemakeza_afp_150803.jpg?<BR> "Sir Allan Kemakeza has been jailed for six months for a 2002 attack on a Honiara law firm. [AFP]")
Sir Allan Kemakeza has been jailed for six months for a 2002 attack on a Honiara law firm. [AFP]
Solomon Islands former prime minister Sir Allan Kemakeza has been jailed for six months for a 2002 attack on a Honiara law firm.
Sir Allan, the current minister of forestry was sentenced to 18 months with the High Court suspending 12 of his 18 months sentence.
Sir Allan had been convicted last December of using militants to carry out the attack, but was only taken into custody today after the High Court ruled in favour of the prosecutor's appeal to increase his sentence.
His earlier attempts to appeal the conviction had failed and now the politician also stands to lose his parliament seat with his sentence exceeding the six month limit imposed on parliamentarians by the constitution.
