Rabin's killer requests permission to wed

JERUSALEM, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- The convicted killer of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Yigal Amir, has submitted a formal request for permission to marry.

Amir, currently serving a life sentence for the 1995 assassination, requested Sunday he be allowed to marry Larisa Trimbobler, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish immigrant from the former Soviet Union, the BBC reported.

Israel's prisons chief Yaakov Ganot said last week that any request for marriage by Amir would be blocked and has instructed his legal aides to prepare a case to defend his position, the BBC said.

However, experts maintain that under Israeli law, the courts would find in favor of Amir.