CANBERRA, Australia, March 19 (UPI) -- Two Australian teenagers have been convicted of murder after they threw two prostitutes into a crocodile-infested river.
Ben William McLean and Phu Ngoc Trinh, both 19, were sentenced to life imprisonment, the BBC reported.
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The bodies of Phuangsri Kroksamrang, 58, and Somjai Insamnan, 27, both Thai-born, were found in the Adelaide River last March.
Trinh confessed to the killings during police questioning, but he later retracted the confession.
The pair has since maintained the women were killed by Asian gangsters.
