London cab driver jailed for killing US soldier

A London cab driver has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 38 years for the murder of a US soldier in a roadside bombing in Iraq in 2007, media reported on Friday.

Anis Sardar, 38, from Wembley, built bombs as part of a conspiracy to kill Americans fighting in the country. He was found guilty on Thursday, BBC reported.

The explosive devices were planted in or around the road near Baghdad in 2007, and one of the bombs killed 24-year-old Sergeant First Class Randy Johnson in September 2007.

Sardar's conviction in a British court for his role in the Iraq insurgency has been hailed a "landmark prosecution".

He denied all his charges.

He told the jury he became involved in the insurgency to protect Sunni Muslims from Shia militias, British Sky News reported.

Sardar was stopped at Heathrow Airport two months after Johnson's death, when he was on his way back to Britain from Syria.

Investigators found an Arab language bomb-making manual in his home.